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The rec.toys.lego Roll Call is an unscientific, unofficial survey first posted to the Usenet newsgroup rec.toys.lego in early 1995 and periodically reposted. Below is a listing of responses to this survey in approximate chronological order.
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From: oremb@skydivskylit.dseg.ti.com () Reply-To: oremb@lobby.ti.com Date: Fri, 6 Jan 1995 15:05:46 GMT Name: Bonnie Orem & Bobby Orem Age: 32 3 M.S.: Married Kids: See Name Employment: Software Design Engineer Number of Sets in Collection: 8 (we just started 12/25/94) Number of Pieces: Unknown Oldest Set: 1990 Black Monarch's Ghost (P.S. TRU in Plano, TX still has most of the ones on Jeff's list that are marked as not in the 1995 catalog) Favorite Themes: Castle Favorite Set in Collection: Wolf Pack Renegades (the hidden treasure cache is way cool!)
From: 23253mgr@ibm.msu.edu (Kevin Forsyth)
Date: Fri, 06 Jan 1995 11:58 EDT
Name: Kevin S. Forsyth
Age: 25
M.S.: Single
Kids: 0 humans, 3 cats
Employment: Systems Analyst in College of Social Sci., Michigan State U.
Number of Sets in Collection: ~60
Number of Pieces: Unknown
Oldest Sets: 1973 (#420 Police Car, #570 Fire House, #710 Wrecker w/ Car,
#221 Idea Book)
Favorite Themes: Pirates (except Islanders), Technic
Favorite Set in Collection: not a set, it's a blue Futuron spaceman, standing
on a crater plate, reaching out to touch a black 1x4x9 monolith.
Also, #8868 (ATCR) in garbage truck form.
From: marpi0591@aol.com (MarPi0591) Date: 6 Jan 1995 12:57:18 -0500 Reply-To: marpi0591@aol.com (MarPi0591) Name: Mario Valdes-Lora Age: 30 M.S.: Married Kids: 1 2/9 Employment: Attorney Number of sets in collection: 50~60 Number of pieces: No idea Oldest Set: 6010 (Supply Wagon) ca. 1984 Favorite Themes: Castle, Pirates Favorite Sets: 6085 (Black Monarch's Castle); Load'n Haul Railroad
From: gt5471a@prism.gatech.edu (Matthew David Cowley) Date: 6 Jan 1995 15:51:12 -0500 Name: Matthew D. Cowley Age: 18 M.S.: Single Kids: What? I am a kid Employment: College Student, Georgia Tech Number of Sets in Collection: 20+ Number of Pieces: Never added 'em up Oldest Set: No idea! (I'm not the collector type, I just love to play) Favorite Themes: Space and Technic Favorite Set in Collection: All of 'em!!!! Just wanted to tell everybody that even at age 18, the cashiers look at me funny. You're not alone...! Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332 Internet: gt5471a@prism.gatech.edu
From: scotto@spasm.cica.indiana.edu (Scott Ostrander) Date: 6 Jan 1995 16:16:10 -0500 Reply-To: scotto@cica.indiana.edu Name: Scott Ostrander Age: 29 M.S.: Single Kids: No thank you Employment: Systems Administration Number of Sets in Collection: Unknown, who keeps track of that anyway? Number of Pieces: Unknown Oldest Set: 1993 - Gave older bricks to 2nd-cousin three years ago Favorite Themes: Castle Favorite Set in Collection: None
From: vrparent@mailbox.syr.edu (Victor)
Date: 6 Jan 1995 19:40:49 GMT
Name: Victor Parente
Age: 24
Employment: Computer Engineer, Grad. student in Education, Teacher
Number of sets: about 50
Number of pieces: ? (Almost 50 Lego people in space suits!)
Oldest Sets: I think it is called the "Universal Building Set" - It was
the first motorized set every sold in the US back in the
mid-70's
Favorite Themes: Technic / Dacta Technic
Favorite Sets: all of the helicopter sets.
From: ivanlan@bones.et.byu.edu (Ivan Van Laningham) Date: 6 Jan 95 17:00:09 Name: Ivan Van Laningham Age: 48 M.S.: Married Kids: 3 cats Employment: GUI Programmer (X-Motif-Windows-OS/2...) Number of Sets in Collection: hundreds Number of Pieces: thousands Oldest Set: ~1963--one of the early samsonite kits, #760 (???) Favorite Themes: Trains, Town Favorite Set in Collection: 4564, the brand-new yellow-engined train set. Been collecting since: 1989 (and they didn't have lego when i was a kid) I Live in Salt Lake City, not Provo....BYU is only where i have my internet access.
From: dik@cwi.nl (Dik T. Winter) Date: Sat, 7 Jan 1995 01:34:02 GMT Name: Dik T. Winter Age: 49 (nearly 50) M.S.: Married Kids: two, 14 and 11. Employment: Scientific research, programmer, system maintenance. Number of Sets in Collection: unknown Number of Pieces: unknown Oldest Set: about 1976; train sets, London double decker bus. alas, my brother has the 1960 VW dealer. Favorite Themes: town Favorite Set in Collection: not applicable -- dik t. winter, cwi, kruislaan 413, 1098 sj amsterdam, nederland, +31205924098 home: bovenover 215, 1025 jn amsterdam, nederland; e-mail: dik@cwi.nl
From: Michon@ix.netcom.com (Ted Michon) Date: 6 Jan 1995 22:01:27 GMT Name: Ted Michon Age: 42 M.S.: Married Kids: Thomas age 7 (US national LEGO champion; 1992 LEGO World Cup winner) David age 4 Both are full time LEGO builders Employment: President, Imagination Technology Corporation (electrical engineer) Number of Sets in Collection: 300+ Number of Pieces: 50,000+ Oldest Set: One circa 1976 (pneumatic), all others since 1990 Favorite Themes: Trains (according to Thomas and David) Favorite Set in Collection: Spyrius Monorail (according to Thomas) Biggest project: 3500 brick house on display at national headquarters of Homedco (Fountain Valley, CA) -- Ted Michon Imagination Technology Corporation michon@ix.netcom.com Irvine, CA
From: Jami Stewart <ivars@u.washington.edu> Date: Fri, 6 Jan 1995 18:41:11 -0800 Name: Jami Stewart Age: 26 M.S.: Single, but a parent :) Kid: Chris, 6. Employment: Student @ U WA Number of Sets: 20+ Number of Pieces: (Aargh, why did you ask? Now I want to count them) ? Oldest: ? Favorite: No specific set, but I like Castle, *Aquatron*. My son likes space space space. We fight over the pieces, he even wants to use Castle pieces for space (blasphamy). (No flames, I can't spell blasphamy right, the dictionary is holding up a bed).
From: scott.dawson@canrem.com (Scott Dawson) Date: Fri, 6 Jan 95 21:01:00 -0500 Name: Scott Robert Dawson AGE: 31 LOCATION: Greater Metropolitan Toronto OCCUPATION AND HOBBIES: Programmer, ATE technologist, PC board repair, animation (computer and classical), drawing, architecture and science fiction (clearly a candidate for Legomania) NUMBER OF SETS: Unknown. Bulk of Lego collection dates from before 1980, with recent additions after 1990 NUMBER OF PIECES: Unknown... (I suppose I could weigh them) GENERAL OUTLOOK: I am not so much drawn by the desire to build the pre-defined models, so my collection is not broken out into its original sets. Rather, everything joins together for new and greater creations.
From: jharms@interserv.com Date: 7 Jan 1995 02:53:24 GMT Name: John Harms Age: 29 M.S.: Single Kids: Nope Employment: DTP/PC whiz kid at US State Dept. Number of Sets in Collection: 100+ Number of Pieces: Unknown (fill 6 big Rubbermaid tubs) Oldest Set: Universal set from late 60s-early 70s: also have a pre-Duplo set of BIG (2"x5") 2x4 bricks===Mom throws nothing out Favorite Themes: Space, Model Team, & Technic Favorite Set in Collection: Any set with lots of wing sections Claim to LEGO fame (according to my girlfriend): Had a piece stuck in my ear for three days. A doctor had to get it out. I was 26 at the time.
From: brianste@gpu2.srv.ualberta.ca (Brian Sterenberg) Date: 7 Jan 1995 02:45:27 GMT Name: Brian Sterenberg Age: 25 M.S.: Single Kids: I hope not Employment: Graduate Student Number of Sets in Colection: about 20 Number of Pieces: Good question Oldest Set: A small very basic set of unknown vintage (1974?) Favourite Theme: Technic! Technic! (Model Team is nice too) Favourite Set in Collection: 856 Technic Bulldozer (This is Canadian #, American # is different) What I desperately Want But Can't Afford (especially if I'm going to get that 4 more MB ram): AirTech Claw Rig!
From: tonyw@erinet.com (Tony Worthington)
Date: Fri, 6 Jan 1995 22:37:16 EST
Name: Tony Worthington
Age: 19
M.S.: Single
Kids: Not for a while.
Employment: Network Admin.
Number of Sets in Collection: 42
Number of Pieces: Haven't added it up yet...
Oldest Set: My loving mother sold my old LEGOS while I was on vacation.
<argh>
Favorite Themes: Trains/TownFavorite Set in Collection: Any
trains...
From: unar2@sfa.ope.ed.gov (Andy Rosulek)
Date: 6 Jan 1995 21:53:40 -0600
Name: Mike James Rosulek
Age: 13
M.S.: Single, yet eligible!!
Kids: 1 pet cat.
Employment: Full-time genius, Full-time babe-magnet!! (life is tough,
ain't it?)
Number of Sets in Collection: 50 - 70 (at least 50, I counted!)
Number of Pieces: between 2,000 and 384,036
Oldest Set: 1982-3?? Probably a Basic set: just bricks, maybe Duplo
Favorite Themes: Technic, Model Team, Space
Favorite Set in Collection: Super Car (8880), SR-71, F-16, S.S. Rosulek
(last 3 are designed by me)
From: merritt@u.washington.edu (Ethan A Merritt) Date: 7 Jan 1995 05:53:04 GMT Reply-To: merritt@u.washington.edu (Ethan A Merritt) Name: Ethan Merritt Age: 42 Married?: yep, and my wife's Lego collection is even older than mine (she'll check in separately) Kids: Loren (9) - was head-over-heels into Lego until Magic card mania hit this summer. Employment: Research Faculty (Biological Structure) Number of Sets in Collection: who counts? It's not a collection, it's a toy, er.. tool, er... inspiration Number of Pieces: see above Oldest Set: circa 1962, dunno the set number - large town set with lots of matchbox-sized VW bugs, ESSO trucks, big emphasis on working garage doors. circa 1963, big gears (maybe set #002???). Mostly bought 'em by the bag in those days, not by the set. Claim to Fame: Recent public lecture entitled "Lego block toxins" (no, it wasn't about toxic Lego! It was about how some bacterial toxins seem to mix-and-match pieces as if they were made up of molecular Lego blocks.)
From: etb@netcom.com (Elam Birnbaum) Date: Sat, 7 Jan 1995 06:14:01 GMT Name: Elam Birnbaum Age: 23 M.S.: Single Kids: Not yet, but eventually. Employment: Manufacturing Engineer Number of Sets in Collection: Hundreds Number of Pieces in Collection: Around 26,000 (I have the exact number somewhere... My Mom and I counted all my LEGO, even itemized each into type and color!) Oldest Set: Don't remember, I was 2 at the time! Probably some basic set my Dad got me when we visited Holland. Favorite Themes: Castle and Space Favorite Set: There was a space set of a white and blue spaceship with many laser cannons in front and two detachable pods. Really cool! Best LEGO project: I built a castle, the surrounding charred badlands, and an entire mountainous region (where the robin hood people lived) and a sea shore (where the pirates landed). Also built a detailed castle, complete with escape route for the king and queen, several secret treasure rooms with booby traps, two gladiator arenas, and a pair of portcullis' (sp?) and a thick sliding wall that all together, NO army could possible penetrate! Its all in pieces now, though. :'( My cousin the architect and I are planning an incredible project some time in the near future!
From: dsmall@media.mit.edu (David Small) Date: Sat, 7 Jan 1995 15:17:05 GMT Name: David Small Age: 29 M.S.: boyfriend Kids: I wish Employment: PhD student (MIT Media Lab) Number of Sets in Collection: 100? Number of Pieces: unkown, but I've got a 4'x8' table completely covered - town, two levels of trains and a two-foot mountain with waterfall, plus Neptune Discovery Lab and some Aquanauts under the table Oldest Set: plain bricks from the 70's. Never saved those boxes or instructions (stupid me) Favorite Themes: trains and town Favorite Set in Collection: Super Car URL: http://dsmall.www.media.mit.edu/people/dsmall/ David Small work:617/253-4406 MIT Media Lab email:dsmall@media.mit.edu Cambridge, Mass "please to enjoy"
From: ben@ins.infonet.net (Ben Sinclair) Date: Sat, 7 Jan 1995 11:37:24 UNDEFINED Name: Ben Sinclair Age: 16 M.S.: I don't think so. :) Kids: Yeah, right Employment: Student Number of Sets in Collection: zillions Number of Pieces: zillions^2 Oldest Set: Maybe that old Exxon gas station? Favorite Themes: Town and Space..Aquazone! :) Favorite Set in Collection: Hmm...
From: jlanders@phakt.usc.edu (Jami Lynn Anderson) Date: 7 Jan 1995 11:22:09 -0800 Name: Jami Anderson Age: 27 M.S.: Married Kids: 4 cats Employment: graduate student (for not much longer!), teaching instructor Number of Sets in Collection: dozens Number of Pieces: probably more than I would like to admit to my husband Oldest Set: Camouflaged Outpost Favorite Themes: Castle (Forest People specifically), trains (Metroliner) Favorite Set in Collection: Guarded Inn
From: tpepper@harp.aix.calpoly.edu (Timothy Charles Pepper (Wintermute))
Date: Sat, 07 Jan 1995 21:23:22 GMT
Name: Tim Pepper
Age: 19
M.S.: Single
Kids: none
"Occupation": computer engineering student
# Sets: about 50(normally all mixed in a big box, but I put them all
together over Christmas and took pictures..any suggestions where to
post theseonce digitized?)
# Pieces: good question...any suggestions for a way to sort/count them?
First Sets: 5th birthday I got the Alpha-1 Rocket Base #483 (1979) and
the expert builder helicopter #8840 (1981)
Oldest Sets: #483 above, old knights procession, and a little blue garage
w/ tow truck
Favorite Set: hmmm tough choice..probably one I never got..like a yellow
Technic plane in the late 80's
Favorite Theme: I mainly have older town, castle and space..none of the
newer ones really. I liked the forest men, and like the pirates,
but castle and space are probably my fav.'s
From: guido@megamed.com Date: 7 Jan 1995 22:26:26 GMT Reply-To: pcguido@megamed.com Name: Tim Cava Age: 12 M.S.: Single Kids: None (I do have a cat though) Employment: Student at Sunnyvale Middle School Number of Sets in Collection: 40 Number of Pieces: Unknown Oldest Set: Not sure, I do have some castle stuff from the mid 80's Favorite Themes: Technic Favorite Set in Collection: Super Car
From: blalock@aol.com (Blalock) Date: 7 Jan 1995 17:30:55 -0500 Reply-To: blalock@aol.com (Blalock) Name: Sherri Blalock Age: 29 again (OK 31) M.S.: Married Kids: 1 Cat Employment: Electrical Engineer Number of Sets in Colection: 150 + Number of Pieces: Have no idea Oldest Set: basic building set circa early '70s Favourite Theme: Technic Favourite Set in Collection: Control Lab
From: coulter@fas.harvard.edu (Shelly Coulter) Date: 8 Jan 1995 02:08:30 GMT Name: Shelly Coulter Age: 30ish Long-time lurker, occasional poster: M.S.: Single Kids: None but a couple of god-children Employment: Researcher/Financial Analyst Number of sets in collection: embarassing low Number of pieces: No idea; embarassing low Favorite Themes: Space, pirates Favorite Sets: love those crocodiles
From: wijsman@max.u.washington.edu
Date: 7 Jan 95 18:44:50 PST
Name: Ellen Wijsman
Age: 40
M.S.: Married
Kids: Loren age 9 (already accounted for elsewhere in survey)
Employment: Research Associate Professor, Medical Genetics and
Biostatistics, Univ. of Washington
Number of Sets in Collection: Who knows? The early collections didn't
come in "sets" - just boxes of blocks
Number of Pieces: Unknown
Oldest Set: 1957 - basic blocks (yes, that is right - last survey I think
I had the record for the oldest lego! I got my first at age 3)
Favorite Themes: Space lego, architecture (not that there is much),
castles
Favorite Set in Collection: Hard to say. I don't keep track of sets.
From: chiner@quark.gmi.edu (Chris Hiner) Date: 8 Jan 1995 03:18:27 GMT Name: Chris Hiner Age: 22 M.S.: engaged, to be married in august Kids: Hopefully not (then I'd hafta share my Lego!) Employment: Programming Voice Response/Fax systems Number of Sets in Collection: I have no idea... Number of Pieces: Lesse... 2 milk crates, 2 xerox paper cases Oldest Set: Not sure of the year or #, but I seem to remember a double decker bus, with something like a "Read The Legoland Times" sticker on it. Favorite Theme: Technic Favorite Set in Collection: Auto Chassis... (and anything in the new pnumatics) How do you get rid of cat fur in your Lego collection?
From: RIDLONCA98%CS13%usafa@cadetmail2.usafa.af.mil (Chris "Airwolf" Ridlon) Date: Sun, 8 Jan 1995 03:41:08 GMT Name: Chris Ridlon Age: 18 M.S.: Single Kids: At this age? ;) Employment: Cadet at US Air Force Academy Number of Sets in Collection: 300+ Number of Pieces: Too many to count. . . Oldest Set: 1977? Police Command Van with the older mini-figs- they had no arms and a leg that was all one piece, and no faces. Favorite Themes: Town (Flight) and Space Favorite Set in Collection: The Airport Monorail or maybe one of the really old spaceships- the ones that were all grey with lots of rocket engine pieces. ;) Also, every hook-n-ladder Lego has put out.
From: maguirer@HERCULES.CS.UREGINA.CA (Rob Maguire) Date: Sun, 8 Jan 1995 03:27:52 GMT Name: Bob Maguire Age: 18 M.S.: Divorced...just kidding! Single Kids: Not that I know of...No Employment: University Student (UofR, Sask., Canada) Number of Sets in Collection: 40-50 (haven't counted...rough guess) Number of Pieces: hmmm...good question Oldest Set: That really small cop car (smaller than the fig!) Favorite Themes: Castle!!! Space in my earlier days... Favorite Set in Collection: Fully Complete: 6086 Black Knight's Castle Various pieces missing: 6980 Space Command Ship Only a few pieces remaing: 6075 Yellow Castle (Destroyed it as a kid, who said innocence is bliss?!?)
From: George Lawrence <glawrence@symantec.com>
Date: 8 Jan 1995 05:52:45 GMT
Name: George Lawrence
Age: 28
M.S.: Married
Kids: 1 (Ashley, 1.5 years old)
Employ: Software Engineer (Norton Utilities)
Number of Sets/Pieces in Collection:
No possible clue, but my collection fills a 30 gallon trash can
and weighs about 50 pounds.
Oldest Set:
Some kind of wheels and gears set from the late 60's
Favorite Themes/Sets:
Lego monorails, Lego trains, Duplo trains
From: carol@alaska.net (Carol)
Date: Sun, 08 Jan 1995 00:11:54 -0800
Name: Andrew Carol
Age: 31
M.S.: Single
Kids: Virtual cat (That's a cat I don't own, yet)
Employment: Computer programmer/Analyst for DoD in Alaska
Number of Sets in Collection: 25+
Number of Pieces: 5,000+
Oldest Set: Parts of sets from early 70's (Mailed from home)
Favorite Themes: Technic/Dacta Technic
Favorite Set in Collection: Homebuilt robots running on Dacta
Lego Control Lab via my Macintosh.
carol@alaska.net carol@ctis.af.mil 71350.3646@compuserve.com
From: wombat@noc.tor.hookup.net (Mark Hornblower)
Date: 8 Jan 1995 10:03:12 -0600
Name: Mark Hornblower
Age: 28
M.S.: Single
Kids: None
Employment: Student (again), production manager of weekly newspaper,
freelance programming and graphics guy ...
Number of Sets in Collection: ~50
Number of Pieces: depends on how many the cats have eaten today ...
Oldest Set: Basic Set #911 (1975) - geared towards making factories and
construction sites and stuff - cool!
Favorite Themes: Town, Technic
Favorite Set in Collection: Air Tech Claw Rig
BTW, in case no one else thought of it, I'm saving all the replies so we
can have this valuable reference information for all time ...
| Mark Hornblower
| wombat@hookup.net
From: hunter@indy.net (Chad L. Miller)
Date: Sun, 8 Jan 1995 19:06:27 GMT
Name: Chad L. Miller
Age: 27
M.S.: Married
Kids: Joy 2.5, Haley 1
Employment: Sr. Systems Analyst
Number of Sets in Collection: >70
Number of Pieces: lots
Oldest Set: All the older ones are kept as parts.
Favorite Themes: Space, Space, and Space (maybe Aquazone)
Favorite Set in Collection: Older Space Police light & sound ship
(the name escapes me)
email: hunter@indy.net
(http://hunter.indy.net/ coming soon...)
From: jenoel@icaen.uiowa.edu (James Edward Noel) Date: 8 Jan 1995 19:14:36 GMT Name: Jim Noel Age: 23 M.S.: Married Kids: Zachary, age 3 Employment: Student Number of sets in collection: 100+ Number of pieces: not enough Oldest Set: The Moon Lander from mid 70's Favorite Themes: Town, Castle, Pirate, Technic Favorite set in collection: 6075 Yellow Castle
From: Steve Dettmann <Steve.Dettmann@mixcom.com> Date: Sun, 8 Jan 1995 20:47:45 GMT Name: Steve Dettmann Age: 36 M.S.: Single Kids: No Employment: CNC turret punch press operator Number of Sets in Collection: 75+ Number of Pieces: Unknown Oldest Set: unknown off hand Favorite Themes: Technic and Space Favorite Set in Collection: Airtech Claw Rig Steve.Dettmann@mixcom.com [The following was added later. --DAK] Date: Wed, 11 Jan 1995 05:50:28 GMT High School Graduate Waukesha County Tech Inst. Graduate (welding) No College sorry I suppose from what I've read here I'm the only blue collar person here. Oh well.
From: acsrds@myhost.subdomain.domain (Robert Schulz) Date: 8 Jan 1995 23:12:05 GMT Name: Robert Schulz Age: 27 M.S.: Single Kids: 1 cat Employment: Supervisor/Govt. Cable TV Channel Number of Sets in Collection: 100+ I can find instructions too... Number of Pieces: +/- 6 cubic ft. Oldest Sets: early 70's Favorite Themes: Technic/Space/Town Favorite Set in Collection: 455 Learjet (amazing what you can do with a bunch of plates...) - - - - Robert Schulz KC6UDS rdschulz@ucdavis.edu
From: 94226@figmnt.tayloru.edu (STEPHEN OLSON) Date: 8 Jan 95 18:26:07 -0500 Name: Stephen Olson Age: 18 M.S.: Single Kids: None, but I have 9 brothers and sisters... Employment: Freshman at Taylor University Number of Sets: 50+ Number of Pieces: 5000+ Oldest Set: A police van with motorcycle from early 80's; it was a "paddywagon" or something like that... Favorite Theme: TOWN Favorite Set: #6389, Fire Control Center from 1991, I think that it was a European set because I never saw it in the stores...(subject to change because I've ordered the metrostation from S@H.)
From: John Reynolds <torgo@u.washington.edu> Date: Sun, 8 Jan 1995 16:09:55 -0800 Name: Christopher Ayers Age: 23 M.S.: Unattatched Kids: None yet Employment: Junior, Psychology, Univ. of Washington No. of Sets: 100+ No. of Pieces: I don't know (they're stored in at least five locations) Oldest Set: Police Car, circa 1974 Favorite Themes: Technic, original Space, Aquazone, Trains Favorite Sets: Whirlwind Rescue, Galaxy Explorer, Seaplane (circa 1980)
From: dot130@duke.usask.ca (Don Tse) Date: 9 Jan 1995 00:47:43 GMT Name: Don Tse Age: 23 M.S.: Single Kids: none Employment: Student with 3 months, 6 days, 18 hours to go Number of sets in collection: 70+ Number of pieces: uh... Oldest set: #377 Shell Station (circa 1978) Favorite themes: Model Team, Dragon Masters, Black Knights Favorite set in collection: Whirl N' Wheel Super Truck, Mach II Red Bird Rig
From: gt5367a@prism.gatech.edu (Anthony Michael Zayas)
Date: 8 Jan 1995 21:25:19 -0500
Name: Anthony Zayas
Age: 18
M.S.: Single
Kids: Not yet
Employment: Student (Georgia Tech)
Number of Sets in Collection: 50+
Number of Pieces: Many
Oldest Set: early 80's (Starfleet Voyager space set (I think that's what
it's called))
Favorite Theme(s): Space
Favorite Set(s) in Collection: Big Huge Ice Planet ship (forget the name)
The one mentioned above
Alienator (Blacktron series 1)
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332
From: math1ji@menudo.uh.edu (Julie Walker) Date: 9 Jan 1995 00:39:43 -0600 Name: Julie Walker Age: 29 M.S.: Married Kids: 2 cats Employment: Ph.D. student in math and occasional teacher Number of Sets in Collection: 200+ Number of Pieces: Unknown Oldest Set: Basic set from 1979 Favorite Themes: Technic & Model Team Favorite Set in Collection: Super Car
From: Andy Boal <andyb@panda.uiowa.edu>
Date: 9 Jan 1995 13:28:52 GMT
Reply-To: andyb@panda.uiowa.edu
Name: Andy Boal
Age: 22 today!!!
M.S.: Single, but firmly attached and engaged :)
Kids: My fiancee has one :)
Employment: Student - 3rd year Economics and ACcounting at Queen's
University Belfast
Number of Sets in Collection: 100s!
Number of Pieces: Lost count
Oldest Set: I've some pre-ABS bricks from my uncles. Oldest own - c. 1976 :)
Favorite Themes: Town & Railways
Favorite Set in Collection: 7740 High Speed train :) The 1981 original 12v
train.
From: "Morten.Steien" <hda9mst@hda.hydro.com> Date: 9 Jan 1995 14:46:10 GMT Name: Morten A. Steien Age: 33 M.S.: Single Kids: None, that i know of. Employment: Self employed consultant in Windows / Novell Number of Sets in Collection: Most large Technics Number of Pieces: Who knows. Oldest Set: Favorite Themes: I collect only Technics Favorite Set in Collection: Super car. Looking foreward to get my hands on the new 95 set(s).
From: julian@gatwick.Geco-Prakla.slb.com (Julian Fitzherbert) Date: 9 Jan 1995 14:37:26 GMT Reply-To: julian@gatwick.Geco-Prakla.slb.com Name: Julian Fitzherbert Age: 37 M.S.: Married Kids: 1 daughter (3 years) Employment: Geophysicist / Software engineer : Geophysical Consultancy Company Number of sets: Approx 10 (since 1985) Pieces: A drawer full. First lego: 1963 Favourite themes: Aircraft and trains (Lego and Duplo railways)
From: jfiles@hdsc16.ucsd.edu (J Files) Date: 9 Jan 1995 17:52:02 GMT Name: James S Files ["Jim!"] Age: 22 M.S.: Alas, Single. Kids: Do roommates count? Employment: Student, Programmer, some-time LEGO arms dealer. See .sig for more complete information. LOOKING FOR SOMETHING FOR After Graduation! Number of Sets: More than you can possibly imagine. I dunno, I can imagine quite a bit. Ok, how's this, no space left. Have about 40 sets that I had to take apart due to lack of space. Have 19 sets that I haven't even put together yet, including El Dorado Fortress and Enchanted Island. Have LEGO assembled on every available flat surface in my room, thinking about either expanding to the living room or to my office. Number of Pieces: No Clue. Had a count once, but that was about 15 years ago, when it was still a reasonable thing to do. Oldest Set: Red <Fire?> Helicopter, circa 1973, still have collapsed box. Fire truck from same time. One other set as well, with a blue trailer, but don't have the box or the instructions any more, so NO idea what it was. Favourite Theme: Castle [Black Knights, Dragon Master, CLASSIC] Pirates [Pirates, BLUE Imperial Guard] Favourite Set in Collection: Classic Yellow Castle Favorite Item: Green Dragon from Dragon Masters. Viewed in profile, and imagined to be all Red, this could be mistaken for a Red Dragon Sagant, which is pretty cool, since that is part of Beta's crest. Now, if only LEGO would MAKE a red dragon. James S. Files, UCSanDiego '95 M: Computer Science m: Anthropology W: Programmer/Analyst I, Mathematics
From: gwl@ch.hp.com (Glenn Lea) Date: Mon, 9 Jan 1995 18:17:53 GMT Reply-To: Glenn Lea <gwl@ch.hp.com> Name: Glenn Lea Age: 43 M.S.: Married Kids: boy 3, girl 6 Employment: software engineer Education: MS, Psychology, but that was 20 years ago Number of Sets: maybe 20, including the kids' sets Number of Pieces: 3000+ Oldest Set: Blue pneumatic set (8042). Favorite Theme: Town, technics Favorite Set in Collection: the last one I bought (currently Hook and Ladder)
From: bfjev@dopey.cc.utexas.edu (John Eric Voltin)
Date: 9 Jan 1995 12:23:04 -0600
Name: John Eric Voltin
Age: 24
M.S.: Single
Kids: None
Employment: ME graduate student, future archaeologist?
Number of Sets in Collection: ??, 50 (maybe?)
Number of Pieces: approximately 1.0 m^3 (count unknown)
Oldest Set: Unknown, I have several from the late 70's including
a neat fire station with three fire trucks
Favorite Themes: LEGO (since they are all compatible), I do like the
trains very much, though
Favorite Set in Collection: I like them all
The University of Texas at Austin
bfjev@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu Mechanical Engineering Department
Home: (512) 835-6693 Work: (512) 835-3081
From: mtidwell@netcom.com (montgomery f. tidwell) Date: Mon, 9 Jan 1995 19:52:30 GMT Name: Montgomery F. Tidwell Age: 33 M.S.: Married Kids: none yet Employment: Programmer Number of Sets in Collection: Unknown Number of Pieces: Unknown Oldest Set: Basic set from late 60's Favorite Themes: Space Favorite Set in Collection: Space Shuttle from 1992
From: KopfDC%DFP%USAFA@dfmail.usafa.af.mil (Dana C. Kopf) Date: Mon, 9 Jan 1995 21:02:17 GMT Name: dana kopf Age: 28 M.S.: married Kids: 1 cat, note the large # of cat owners in this group! my cat likes to bat the pieces around Employment: usaf Number of Sets in Collection: ~30 Number of Pieces: n, where n is large Oldest Set: 1990 Favorite Themes: space, town Favorite Set in Collection: ? Favorite Thing I have built: a very realistic looking TIE fighter using the octan twin tank transport pieces, complete with TIE pilot, who is getting a new helmet as soon as i get one of those black auquanaut helmets. Thing I want to build when I get enough pieces: you guessed it - a star destroyer! this will take years and lots of $. anyone care to donate lots of white pieces for this project?
From: cdouglas@ice.lakeheadu.ca Date: 9 Jan 1995 19:35:56 GMT Name: Clare Douglas Age: 24 M.S.: single Kids: none (except me) Employment: Psychology student, and p/t swim instructor Number of Sets: about 40 Number of Pieces: 5,000 Oldest Set: I just started collecting last year Favourite Themes: Town Favorite Set in Collection: Pirate ship Best accomplishment is a 1 1/2 foot unicorn
From: talvey@atlantis.actrix.gen.nz (Trever Alvey) Date: Mon, 9 Jan 1995 22:07:47 GMT Name: Trevor Alvey Age: 27 M.S.: Singled Kids: 2 cats Employment: Power systems engineer Number of Sets in Collection: ~20 Number of Pieces: Count all those little bits?? No Way! Oldest Set: 1981? Technic Red Tractor with implements Favorite Themes: Technic, Space Favorite Set in Collection: Technic Air Claw Rig
From: "Edward C. Bennett" <edward@rahul.net> Date: 9 Jan 1995 22:48:59 GMT Name: Edward Bennett Age: 33 M.S.: single Kids: none Employment: Software Engineer Number of sets in collection: ~100 Number of pieces: several thousand Oldest set: train set from early 70's Favorite theme: Trains Favorite set in collection: Space Shuttle -- Edward C. Bennett <edward@rahul.net> 415-967-6849
From: janet lasher <janet.lasher@leland.stanford.edu> Date: 9 Jan 1995 23:58:10 GMT Name: Janet Lasher/Julian Kessler Age: 30something/4.25 M.S.: Married/girls are ucky Kids: 1 child 4.25 (just ask him -- we are answering this together) Employment: Systems analyst/software developer/pre-schooler Number of Sets in Colection: I have no idea/lots and lots Number of Pieces: ditto/millions and millions Oldest Set: circa 1990 (my nephew has all my older ones ~1980+) Favourite Theme: Space / castles & town - mostly trains & dragons Favourite Set in Collection: Train station (Julian out voted me) This is Julian's first post. I think he did quite well. There seem to be very few women on the net who are into legos..... interesting.
From: currentd@carleton.edu (Dan Current)
Date: 8 Jan 95 18:22:03 CST
Name: Dan Current
Age : 20
M.S. : nope.
Kids : Just Me, Myslef, and I.
Employment : Lurker, or student, take your pick.
Number of Sets in Collection : Uh, 100+ probably.
Number of Pieces : Between 10 and 10^7.
Oldest Set : First town fire station with the people who had
moving legs and arms...
Favorite Themes : Town
Favorite Set in Collection : My 'Born to Build' LEGO shirt. ;)
currentd@carleton.edu
From: dougk@cray.com (Douglas Koepke {x66558 CF/DEV})
Reply-To: dougk@cray.com
Date: 9 Jan 95 11:51:37 CST
Name: Doug Koepke
Age: 38
M.S.: Married
Kids: Aaron - 11, Nick - 7 ( dad builds, they play)
Employment: Logic Engineer @ Cray Research
Number of sets: Approx 10 major size sets & 25 small ones
Number of Pieces: Close to 10,000. (tried adding up all the numbers on the
boxes)
Oldest stuff: An old set of red & white bricks my parents gave (back" to me.
Favorite Theme: Technic
Fav. Set in collection: Airtech Claw Rig
From: ez020913@monet.ucdavis.edu (Jayson Entao) Date: 10 Jan 1995 01:36:06 GMT Name: Jayson Entao Age: 23 M.S.: Single Kids: 0.0 Employment: Campus computer lab attendant Number of Sets in Colection: 90+ Number of Pieces: Let me count them...1, 2, 3, 4,..(I'll get back to you), 5.. Oldest Set: Galaxy Explorer, 1980. Favourite Theme: Space and Technic. Favourite Set in Collection: Technic Super Car. As soon as it gets thru customs. -- || Jayson Entao || itlm047@ucdavis.edu || jmentao@ucdavis.edu
From: bdurney@uvsc.edu (DR. BRIAN DURNEY) Date: Tue, 10 Jan 1995 01:20:56 GMT Name: Brian Durney Age: 35 M.S.: double Kids: Jessica (5), Alex (4), Jason (-4 months and counting) Employment: Professor in Computer Science at Utah Valley State College Number of sets in collection: ~10 Number of pieces: a couple thousand? Oldest set: not very Favorite theme: Castle Favorite set in collection: Black Knight's Castle Education: PhD in computer science at the University of Oregon, June 94 Location: Orem, Utah Although castles are my favorite theme, I'm going through a space phase and am designing a noncombative role-playing game for my kids. The game is set in the solar system and uses space Legos. I'm interested in any and all games that use Legos and have looked at (but not yet played) Legowars, Plastic Ships and Wooden Men (or is that Plastic Ships and Plastic Men?), etc. Brian Durney bdurney@uvsc.edu krisian@aol.com
From: dcook@maths.adelaide.edu.au (David Cook)
Date: 10 Jan 1995 09:21:22 +1030
Reply-To: dcook@spam.adelaide.edu.au
Name: David Cook
Age: 24
M.S.: Single (recently, <sigh>)
Kids: Distant future maybe
Employment: Assistant Computer Manager in Maths dept., also studying Arts
Number of Sets in Collection: 57 sets of instructions, some others lost.
Number of Pieces: about 11,500
Oldest Set: 394 and/or 396 ('76 or '77 ... not sure exactly)
Favourite Themes: Space, Castle
Favourite Set in Collection: Supercar (8880)
Been to Legoland: Yes ! In July last year. Great fun :)
PS: I have this crazy idea of sitting down one day and building _all_ of the
sets I have instructions for. If someone out there has 394 (a Harley Davidson
motorcycle) or 396 (a steam train) instructions, I'd like to hear from you :-)
--
David T Cook e-mail: dcook@spam.adelaide.edu.au Phone: +61 8 303 5709
Assistant Computer Manager, Stats, Pure and Applied Maths, Adelaide Uni.
From: mckinney@eleceng.ee.queensu.ca (Alexander (Sandy) McKinney)
Date: 9 Jan 1995 22:09:35 GMT
Name: Alexander R. McKinney
Age: 26
M.S.: Single - but have a girlfriend!
Kids: nope
Employment: Graduate Student - Master's in Electrical Engineering
Number of Sets in Collection: ~100
Number of Pieces: Good bloody question... ~13 000?
Oldest Set: early 70's - the multicoloured gear set
Favorite Themes: castle, technics
Favorite Set in Collection: 6672 - Safari truck (I *love* Africa!)
Alexander R. (Sandy) McKinney Electrical Engineering Grad Student
mckinney@eleceng.ee.queensu.ca Queens University
Kingston, Ont., CANADA
From: psw@tauon.ph.unimelb.edu.au (Paul Weiser) Date: 8 Jan 1995 22:22:08 GMT Name: Paul Stephan Weiser Age: 28 M.S.: single Kids: Just one 28 year old :-). Employment: Physics Ph.D. Student (Uni. of Melb., Australia) Number of Sets in Collection: something approaching 1000 Number of Pieces: tens of thousands Oldest Set: ~1965 an old London Taxi and a Universial set. Favorite Themes: Space, Town, Pirate, castle and Technic Favorite Sets: The Space Monorails and all the extra track packs. Been collecting since: 1979 (Mainly Space and Town, Others 2-3 years)
From: mmichel@us.oracle.com (Mark Lance Michel) Date: 10 Jan 1995 14:15:44 GMT Name: Lance Michel Age: 34 M.S.: Divorced (Lego had nothing to do with it.) Kids: None Employment: Technical Consultant for Oracle Inc. Number of Sets in Collection: 15+ Favorite Themes: Technic, Dacta Favorite Set in Collection: Airtech Claw Rig. -- Lance Michel Office Address: Sales Consultant 290 Woodcliff Drive Oracle Corporation Fairport, New York 14450
From: robertsk@tamu.edu Date: 10 Jan 1995 14:55:31 GMT Name: Katherine Roberts Age: 25 M.S.: Married Kids: WHAT?!? And have to share my LEGO! Employment: Expediter for TAMU Number of Sets in Collection: 20 Number of Pieces: Not nearly enough Oldest Set: 1974 (guy in a little truck) Mom hid it for us kids for Christmas years ago, and just found it again. Favorite Themes: Castle! Castle! Castle! (know where I can get any Forestmen?) Favorite Set in Collection: King's Mountain Fortress Claim to LEGO Fame: Took pictures of my real live "dragons" (lovebirds) in and about my castles, then used the vegetable sprayer in the sink to clean off any bird poo. LEGO Goal: Strike it rich at a garage sale and get lots of bricks to build a properly defensable castle.
From: Phil ~Phlash~ Ashby <paa@mround.bt.co.uk>
Date: 10 Jan 1995 17:53:08 GMT
Name: Philip Ashby
Age: 28
M.S.: Married
Kids: Martin 6, Robert 4, Joseph 1
Employment: Professional Software Engineer (paid hacker)
Qual: M.Eng (hons), York University, England
AMIEE.
Number of Sets in Collection: unknown
Number of Pieces: Approx. 5000
Oldest Set: 1975 Police Station (I think, I was only 8-))
Favorite Themes: none (I prefer new design challenges)
Favorite Set in Collection: The newest one (currently the Technics
helicopter / jeep set [8820?])
Phil ~Phlash~ Ashby.
Felixstowe, Suffolk, England.
From: bdelph@pcnet.com (Bill Delphenich) Date: Tue, 10 Jan 95 18:22:06 GMT Name: Bill Delphenich Age: 43 M.S. Married Kids: 1 son (Lego-maniac Jr.) Employment: Architect Number of sets: ? (more than 30) Number of pieces: ? (about 6 red buckets) Favorite theme: Buildings and trains, also Technics _________________________________ William C. Delphenich, Architect bdelph@pcnet.com New Haven, CT USA
From: coverstone@hpl.hp.com (Randy Coverstone) Date: Tue, 10 Jan 1995 17:29:39 GMT Name: Randy Coverstone Age: 40 M.S.: Single Kids: 10,11, & 10year old cat Employment: Engineering Manager Number of Sets in Collection: well over 1000 Number of Pieces: (est) > 200,000 Oldest Set: 1980? universal set Favorite Themes: Technic, Train, Dacta control lab Favorite Set in Collection: All of 'em
From: schmchrj@rtsg.mot.com (Joseph R. Schumacher) Date: 10 Jan 95 23:01:19 GMT Name: Joe Schumacher Age: 33 M.S.: married Kids: Timmy (4, chief legomaniac) and Emily (9 mo) Employment: Engineer Number of Sets in Collection: Number of Pieces: Oldest Set: Favorite Themes: Space, & castle Favorite Sets: Been collecting since: 1973
From: art6@cornell.edu (Alan Turner) Date: Tue, 10 Jan 1995 20:30:33 Name: Alan Turner Landscape architect. Currently does not own any lego Introduced to Lego in Berlin, 1963. Why can't I buy a bunch of 2x8 bricks in a single color anymore? Most missed lego parts: 1x1 bricks printed with letters of the alphabet, including vowels with unlauts.
From: Thomas Boyd <ez048001@peseta.ucdavis.edu> Date: Tue, 10 Jan 1995 09:48:03 -0800 Name: Tom Boyd Age: 30 M.S.: Married Kids: Due June Employment: Grad student, mechanical engineering Number of Sets in Collection: 200+ Number of Pieces: If I only knew... Oldest Set: 005 (big colorful gears and lots of blocks - thanks gram) Favorite Themes: lotsa bricks cheap Favorite Set in Collection: There are no individual sets, they belong to the BORG now
From: hdrake@artax.webo.dg.com (Howard Drake )
Date: Tue, 10 Jan 95 12:57:34 GMT
Name: Howard Drake
Age: 47
M.S.: Married
Kids: Twin girls, 16.
Employment: Software Engineer
Number of Sets in Collection: many
Number of Pieces: More than my wife thinks is necessary, but she still
gave me two new sets for Christmas; one a Paradisa set,
she likes the men waiting on the women.
Oldest Set: Early '70s, automatic opening garage doors.
Favorite Themes: Castle
Favorite Set in Collection: The yellow castle, 6075?
Favorite Thing I have built: Large yellow castle from Bill & Mary book, #6000.
From: wchang@phage.cshl.org (William Chang in Marr Lab) Date: 11 Jan 1995 07:15:17 -0500 Reply-To: wchang@cshl.org Name: William Chang Age: 31 M.S.: Married (soon 10 years) Kids: Arthur, 2 (legoholic) and Sofia, 6 months Employment: Computational biologist (CS PhD) Number of Sets in Collection: Few (not a collector) Number of Pieces: Not enough (but lots of dreaded Tyco for fillers) Oldest Set: Back around 1970... Favorite Themes: Space Favorite Set in Collection: Whichever has unusual pieces Perfer (can only afford) small but elegant designs. Has swing-wing bird glider, horseshoe crab land vehicle, Star Wars inspired ships etc.
From: anw@ssm (Andy Watkins) Date: 11 Jan 1995 13:49:41 GMT Reply-To: awatkins@bt-sys.bt.co.uk Name: Andy Watkins Age: err... 23 M.S.: Engaged (and she got LEGO for Christmas!) Kids: None Employment: Visualisation Programmer for BT Number of Sets in Collection: between 5 and 15 Number of Pieces: Dunno - I timeshare with my brother Oldest Set: Dunno - got first sets in aobut 1975ish Favorite Themes: CASTLE Favorite Set in Collection: (currently) Haunted tower (*) (*) I think the glow-in-the dark ghost is Incredible. I'm a grown man, about to get married, and here I am shining a torch and turning the lights out! (I must be nuts!) _________________ | _ _ _ _ | Andy Watkins LEGO | (_) (_) (_) (_) | awatkins@bt-sys.bt.co.uk It's a | _ _ _ _ | New Toy | (_) (_) (_) (_) | Every |_________________| Left: The Classic 2x4 LEGO Brick (Plan view) Day.
From: peter.gruhn@delta.com (Peter Gruhn) Date: Wed, 11 Jan 1995 05:59:00 -0500 Name: Peter Gruhn Age: 28 M.S.: Single Kids: none "Occupation": programmer # Sets: dunno. 20 # Pieces: some First Sets: Some basic set c 1975 Oldest Sets: ibid. Favorite Set: dunno I'm really keen on my front loader. The newmatic crane just might be a favourite when I get it. I like my Technic n handy lessons for your students set. Favorite Theme:technic town (depending)
From: mike@cs.umd.edu (Mike Steele) Date: 11 Jan 1995 14:07:35 -0500 Name: Mike Steele Age: 20 M.S.: Single Kids: none Employment: Student, part time Unix system administration Number of sets in collection: lost count long ago Number of pieces: billions and billions? :) Oldest set: I have no idea what it was called or what the number was, but it was this set with three of the old-style people with the flexible arms: a mother, daughter, and little boy in a baby carriage. (1977 or '78, I think) Favorite themes: Castle, Space Favorite set in collection: M-Tron Huge Vehicle Thingy, Black Monarch's Castle, Aerial Acrobats -- Mike Steele INET: mike@cs.umd.edu voice: (301)405-2720 Univ. of Maryland Dept. of Comp. Sci. http://www.cs.umd.edu/users/mike
From: altenbur@plains.NoDak.edu (Karl Altenburg) Date: Wed, 11 Jan 1995 18:48:16 GMT Name: Karl Altenburg Age: 28 M.S.: Married Kids: Two Employment: Grad student/computer consultant Number of Sets in Collection: 100+/ plus hundreds of spare parts kits Number of Pieces: Several Thousands Oldest Set: Technic Motor Set from early 80's Favorite Themes: Technic and Duplo Favorite Set: Technic Yellow Front End Loader -- Karl R Altenburg altenbur@plains.NoDak.edu North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND 58105
From: akwong@gundam.Eng.Sun.COM (Anthony Wong)
Date: 11 Jan 1995 19:39:30 GMT
Name: Anthony Wong
Age: 32
M.S.: Married (7.5 yrs)
Kids: Just me
Employment: Electrical Engineer (microprocessors)
Number of Sets in Collection: 30+
Number of Pieces: just the sets
Oldest Set: started collecting 3 years ago
Favorite Themes: Space, Technic
Favorite Set in Collection: Multi Core Magnetizer, any Technic
Location : San Francisco Bay Area
Other: My wife and I are saving up for one of the train sets.
At one time we were thinking of getting LGB, but decided
on Lego trains instead.
From: amy_stoklas-oakes@atk.com (First Last) Date: Wed, 11 Jan 1995 18:11:01 GMT Name: Amy Stoklas-Oakes Age: 26 (in 2 weeks) M.S.: Married (to another LEGO maniac) Kids: 1 cat, 1 dog, 1 27 yr old housemate son (Myles) Employment: Process/Manufacturing Engineer # sets in Collection: Ack!!! (to quote others) ?? # of pieces: ACKKKKK!!! (I may have to actually count them) Oldest Set: 6020 Castle Knights Tournament (1986?) Favorite Themes: Castle Favorite Set: 6074 Knights castle
From: dcaudle@lib.auburn.edu (DANA CAUDLE) Date: Wed, 11 Jan 1995 14:28:50 GMT Name: Dana Caudle Age: 28 M.S.: single Kids: None Employment: Librarian No. of sets: I lost count after 50 No. of pieces: enough to fill two 3-cubic meter boxes Oldest set: Town hospital from the 70's Favorite theme: Castle!! Favorite set: Forestman's River Fortress Best accomplishment: I built a two-story gatehouse for one of my castles that had a drawbridge, portcullis, and gates flanked by two towers.
From: jofickli@nmsu.edu (Joey J. Ficklin) Date: 11 Jan 1995 23:36:48 GMT Name: Jordan Ficklin E-mail address:jofickli@nmsu.edu Age:15 Education:Sophomore at Las Cruces High School Occupation: Yeah right! Number of Sets: ?50+? Number of Pieces: 7 cubic feet Favorite Themes: Town and Technic Oldest Set: A fire station no instructions or set number probably 15 yrs old Favorite Set: Technic 9v motor
From: plusch@harlequin.com (Mike Plusch) Date: Wed, 11 Jan 1995 16:56:39 GMT Name: Mike Plusch Age: 26 M.S.: Engaged Kids: 0 Employment: Product manager for computer languages at Harlequin Number of Sets in Collection: 500 Number of Pieces: about 82,000 Oldest Set: '76/'77 Favourite Themes: Technic, (Paradisa and Bellville because of wierd colors) Favourite Set in Collection: Supercar (8880) Been to Legoland: nope. Things that I build: Robots, moving (walking/rolling/climbing) Lego vehicles, and things with lots of motors. Like to Lego-ize non-Lego components such as sensors, computers, replacement metal parts, powerful motors, gearboxes, remote control, etc.
From: ms3079@ARK.SHIP.EDU Date: 12 Jan 1995 02:21:42 GMT Reply-To: ms3079@ARK.SHIP.EDU Name: Matt Sober Age: 20 Location: Shippensburg Pennsylvania M.S.: Single Kids: none Employment: Student (soon to be 2nd Lt. is US Army) Number of Sets: 35+ Number of Pieces: 20,000+ Oldest Sets: Some of the first Universal Building Sets and the Red Tractor Favorite Theme: Technic and just recently Town and Train Favorite Set: Super Car Favorite Thing I've Built: 4WD truck with steering and the 4wd is engaged and disengaged by pneumatics, its comparable in size to Super Car but does have the fancy peices used in that set for AWD.
From: rarz@access3.digex.net (Rod Arz) Date: 11 Jan 1995 22:13:10 -0500 Name: Rod Arz Age: 16 M.S.: Single Kids: None(thank god) Employment: High School Student Number Of Sets in collection: ~30 Number Of Pieces: about 12 sq. feet Oldest Set: Town set from 1984 Favorite Themes: Technics, Space Favorite Set: 6973: Large Ice Planet 2000 Space Ship -- | Rod Arz rarz@access.digex.net : Nemo rarz@sub-zero.mit.edu
From: J.T.Thorpe <John.Thorpe@ClemsonSC.NCR.COM> Reply-To: John.Thorpe@ClemsonSC.NCR.COM Date: Wed, 11 Jan 1995 16:10:49 GMT Name: J.T. Thorpe Age: 26 M.S.: Single w/girlfriend Kids: None Employment: Information Systems Consultant Number of sets in collection: 16-17 Number of pieces: Why count them? Oldest set: Modular Space Transport Favorite theme: Castle & Trains Favorite set in collection: do I have to pick one? Education: BS Comp Sci - Queens College 1990 MS Comp Sci - Clemson University 1992 Location: Greenville, SC Rather interesting that my Lego preferences match up with my hobbies consistently..... J.T.Thorpe -- AT&T Global Information Solutions
From: gas@globus.ffi.no (Geir Atle Storhaug) Date: 12 Jan 1995 13:00:49 GMT Reply-To: Geir-Atle.Storhaug@ffi.no (Geir Atle Storhaug) In-reply-to: lzucaro@aol.com's message of 6 Jan 1995 00:30:45 -0500 Name: Geir Atle Storhaug Age: 32 M.S.: Married Kids: 3 (1, 3 and 5 years old) Employment: Scientist Number of Sets in Collection: about 30 sets + about 50 liters of LEGO compatible bricks Number of Pieces: Unknown Oldest Set: ca. 1991 Favorite Themes: Technic Favorite Set in Collection: Air Tech Claw Rig Education: M.Sc 1986 (University of Bergen, NORWAY) -- ____ ___ Geir Atle Storhaug / ____/\ (__ X400 : G=Geir-Atle;S=Storhaug;O=ffi;P=uninett;C=no; \___// \___) RFC : Geir-Atle.Storhaug@ffi.no Phone (office): +47-63-807658 Phone (home): +47-63-838987 Fax:+47-63-807509 Forsvarets forskningsinstitutt, FFI/VM, Postboks 25, N-2007 Kjeller, NORWAY
From: Steven_Berman@transarc.com Date: Thu, 12 Jan 1995 10:37:39 -0500 Name: Steven Berman Age: 28 M.S.: Married (Lynn) Kids: 5/9 Cats: 2 (Faraday and Grahm) Location: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA Employment: Systems Software Developer Sets in Collection: 18 complete sets + pieces Pieces: Too many too count (Yeah!) Oldest Set: 001 American (Samsonite) Gear Set and 002 4.5 V motor pack Favorite Themes: Technic Universal sets Favorite Set in Collection: #180 Battery GoodsTrain (EUR:~1974-1976) My wife and I are rediscovering Lego (esp, with the recent clearance sales) and I love building with Technic sets. I only rue having allowed my mother to give away the basic building sets I had as a kid. I am currently constructing the "Rug Warrior" lego robot described in the book "Mobile Robots: Inspiration to Implementation" by Joe Jones and Anita Flynn.
From: cryogen@ionet.net (Jon C. Koerber) Date: 12 Jan 1995 19:37:23 GMT Name: Jon Koerber Age: 28 M.S.: Engaged Kids: Adopt if ever Employment: Database Administrator, American Fidelity Corporation Number of Sets in Collection: 12+ Number of Pieces: Approx. 5,500 Oldest Set: 1972 Universal set (For 6th birthday in Tours, France) Favorite Themes: Anything that has moving parts (gears and junk) Favorite Set in Collection: Original technic "car chassis" 2-spd 4cyl
Date: Thu, 12 Jan 1995 12:32:43 CST
From: Namir Gharaibeh <U50879@uicvm.uic.edu>
Yo. Here. I know I'm young, but I'm still growing. As is the collection.
Name: Namir Gharaibeh
Age: 23
M.S.: Single, but taken
Kids: Do cats count?
Employment: IE Student at University of IL at Chicago (last year!)
Number of Sets in Collection: roughly 50+
Number of Pieces: I build with em, not count em.
Oldest Set: A floatable ship circa 1972
Favorite Themes: Technic, and Space (Blacktron)
Favorite Set in Collection: Whirlwind Rescue chopper, and all
the Expert Builder sets.
Lifelong Ambition: To be an industrial engineer at LEGO.
Hey, if anyone's intersted, I took it upon myself to archive all
of these. Once the flow lessens, I'll post it somewhere. It's
big, I mean, BIG. :) Anyone have ideas as to where I can post
it? I may even compile statistics if I get any requests (1).
Keep the pieces! (Keep the peace, peace, pieces? Nevermind.)
| THE SNIPER'S GUILD : a.k.a. Namir Gharaibeh |
| "Proud Advocates of Creative Mayhem" : U50879@uicvm.uic.edu |
| Viscouse P'pello : University of Illinois |
| Chicago Branch, XQ Division : at Chicago |
From: btharp@infi.net (Bruce Tharp) Date: 9 Jan 1995 03:55:32 GMT In article <3eiki5$m6o@newsbf02.news.aol.com>, lzucaro@aol.com (LZucaro) says: Name: Bruce Tharp Age: 38 M.S.: Married Kids: 2 - boy 2.5 yrs, girl 15 months Employment: Owner, Association Management Company Number of Sets in Collection: None - Starting on trains this month Number of Pieces: None Oldest Set: NA Favorite Themes: Trains Favorite Set in Collection: NA
From: Chris Adams <72701.1621@CompuServe.COM> Date: 13 Jan 1995 01:12:03 GMT Name: Chris Adams Age: 30 M.S.: Married Kids: boys 2 & 5 Employment: Software Eng Number Of Sets in collection: alot (placed ad for used LEGO...) Number Of Pieces: box 2'x3'x3' full. Oldest Set: 4.5v trains Favorite Themes: masks Favorite Set: Toolo is my sons' favorites I have constructed 2 LEGO head that my son and I can wear to LEGO build contests in Connecticut. I have tried to get a job at LEGO in Enfield, CT as a LEGO modeler (US LEGO headquarters), but the best I could do is to work for the company that writes the software that LEGO (US and Denmark) uses to design the boxes that LEGO comes in. -- Chris Adams lpoint!adams@urartu.sdpa.org Artios Corp. Maker of Boxmaking CAD/CAM software tools
From: foster@mecho.cray.com (Paul Foster)
Date: 12 Jan 95 21:10:18 CST
Name: Paul Foster
Age: 28
M.S.: yes
Kids: two - 3 and 5 years old
Employment: systems engineer
Number of sets in collection: >100
Number of pieces: Lot (but not enough)
Oldest set: Lunar Lander set (multi-joint arms on people)
Favorite Themes: Technics for me, Town for kids
Favorite Set in Collection: 8862 backhoe and model Team blue/white semi
Location: Chippewa Falls, WI
Best Accomplishment: building three matching size trailers for the
model team semi
Lego peave: the model team tractor trailers each have different hitch
heights that don't make them interchangeable (without mods :)
--
Paul Foster (Foster@no2sun.cray.com) Cray Research, Inc.
From: tubesing@lanl.gov (Phil Tubesing)
Date: 12 Jan 1995 22:32:33 GMT
Name: Phil Tubesing
Age: 27
M.S.: Single
Kids: No
Employment: Operations Engineer
Education: BS Mecahnical Eng, Carnegie-Mellon: MIS Ind Safety, U Minn
Number of Sets in Collection: ~12 Universal, 5 Space, ~20 Technic
Number of Pieces: More than three
Oldest Set: Lost the box along time ago. Universal set from ~1973
Favorite Themes: Technic
Favorite Set in Collection: Pneumatic Forklift
Location : Los Alamos, NM (since 1992)
Other fields: How about, the thing you have on your desk/in your pencil
case to tell others that you are a Lego addict?
1) Technic front-end loader
2) Car of my design with limites slip differential
Both on to of one of my computers
So far have been able to convert several coneheads to the world of LEGOS!!
| Phil Tubesing tubesing@lanl.gov
| Los Alamos National Labs
| M/S G770 MST-6 Sigma Complex
| Los Alamos NM 87545
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From: akay@comlab.ox.ac.uk (Andrew Kay) Date: Fri, 13 Jan 1995 14:09:34 GMT Name: Andrew Kay Age: 30 M.S.: have co-mortgagee Kids: only me, but we have two goldfish and a full size cardboard human skeleton called Yorick. Occupation: computer scientist First Sets: I don't remember (mid/late 60s) Favourite Sets: Sets? Favourite sets? Sets are just boxes of pieces. Favourite Pieces: technics length 4 "cranks" Favourite Themes: Technics, Dacta control lab Number of pieces: Way up in the high Oodles by now Special interests: walking machines, remote control, robotics Sharp Laboratories of Europe Ltd, Edmund Halley Road, Oxford Science Park, Oxford OX4 4GA, United Kingdom. Telephone +44-1865 747711; Fax +44-1865-747719 Email: Andrew.Kay@prg.oxford.ac.uk or @sharp.co.uk
From: ggellert@junction.net (Gary Gellert) Date: 12 Jan 1995 09:09:50 -0800 Name: Gary Gellert Age: 25 M.S.: single Kids: none, thank God! Employment: Carpenter Number of sets in collection: 50+ Number of pieces: 10000+ Oldest set: Duplo bricks from early 70's Favorite theme: Technics Favorite set in collection: Not sure of name, but Technics Crane/ForkLift set from early 80's Education: High School Graduate Location: Lumby, BC, CANADA | ggellert@junction.net | fidonet 1:353/353.2 | amiganet 40:800/765.2 | Coming to you live from Lumby, British Columbia, CANADA
From: norska@access4.digex.net (NorskaWood) Date: 13 Jan 1995 19:06:25 -0500 Name: Vikki (aka NorskaWood) Age: 30 M.S.: Single Kids: Do cats count? Employment: Computer Scientist with a major North American government :) Number of Sets in Collection: One Basic, 2 Pirates, 2 Dragon Masters (Hey, I'm just getting started!) Number of Pieces: Beats me.... <500 Oldest Set: #720 Basic (C) 1985 Favorite Themes: Pirates, Dragon Masters Favorite Set in Collection: The newest addition, always. Currently my Magic Shop. Whine: My mommy never let me play with anything with more than one piece to it (ok, slight exaggeration), so I was a deprived child. I'm trying to catch up. :)
From: christy@hpbs2625.boi.hp.com (Christy Rohrig) Date: Fri, 13 Jan 1995 22:28:33 GMT Reply-To: christy@hpbs2625.boi.hp.com (Christy Rohrig) Name: Christy Rohrig Age: 24 M.S.: Not yet. Kids: None that I know of (and women usually know) Employment: Development Engingeer - Hewlett Packard, Boise, ID Number of Sets in collections: Not enough (only about 6) Number of pieces: Thousands Oldest set: A 1990 Firestation (I never had cool toys as a kid) Favorite Themes: TRAINS Favorite Set in Collection : Load 'n' Haul RR (Got two of them!!!!!!! and it's soooooo cool!) Have a great year playing!!!
From: kkoehn@lichee.csil.sfu.ca (Kaari David Koehn) Date: 13 Jan 1995 22:12:47 GMT Reply-To: kkoehn@sfu.ca Name: Kaari Koehn Age: 22 M.S.: Attached Kids: at heart Education: undergrad Computer Engineering Employment: student Number of Sets: 20? Number of Pieces: 1000+ Oldest Set: 701 (Old Space) & thereabouts Themes: Old Space, Castle, Pirates Newest Set: "Runner" pirate If I weren't doing this by heart, I'd have real set numbers. I just wanted to mention that when Toys&Wheels (B.C. based chain) went bankrupt, I got good deals, but all the stuff I wanted was gone before I got there & my Pirate collection suddenly started. I re-rigged the pirate skiff for working rigging & tiller, using black thread. ____ Kaari kkoehn@sfu.ca
From: zachnzach@aol.com (ZachNZach) Date: 14 Jan 1995 00:26:00 -0500 Reply-To: zachnzach@aol.com (ZachNZach) Name: Steve Delfino & Crispin Richey Age: 27 & 30 M.S.: Unisex spousal equivalents Kids: Not yet Employment: Actuary, Financial Guy Number of Sets in Collection: ~220 Number of Pieces: 35,000 Oldest Set: Some yellow construction sets from mid 70's Favorite Themes: Town, Monorails/Trains, Aquazone, Pirates, Technic, okay, we can't decide. Favorite Set in Collection:Lego TC Logo Robotics PC interface (from Dacta) We also bought 100 Santas from a toy store that was going out of business for the ridiculous price of 23 cents each. That's our proudest lego find. Claim to Fame: Our lego addiction helped an engineer friend of ours get a job at Lego in Enfield CT. We now have an inside contact. Although she still refuses to tell us about upcoming product lines. (What a good little employee)
From: spetermc@iconz.co.nz (Peter McHaffie)
Date: 14 Jan 1995 19:18:42 GMT
Name: Alistair
Age: 15
M.S.: Not yet
Kids: No way
Employment: Student T.G.S NZ
Number of sets: A hell of alot.
Number of pieces: Gerzillions
Favorite theme: Technic is cool. I like building spaceships out of
those standard two nobble wide red pieces.
From: roy@ydwarf.demon.co.uk (Roy B Jephson) Reply-To: roy@ydwarf.demon.co.uk Date: Sun, 15 Jan 1995 16:58:07 +0000 Name: Roy Jephson Age: 30 M.S.: Not yet Kids: None that I know of (but men don't always know :-) ) Employment: Software Engineer - at a small company in England Number of Sets in collections: approx. 20 Number of pieces: I prefer sticking them together rather than counting them Oldest set: I don't know, probably a technics set from the mid 80's Favorite Themes: trains, space and technics Favorite Set in Collection : The big ones I've thought of a new theme but I attempted to post that to the appropriate thread. So you will have to go looking. :-) -- Roy B Jephson roy@ydwarf.demon.co.uk
From: soholder@eos.ncsu.edu (Sheldon Owen Holder) Date: 15 Jan 1995 19:15:09 GMT Reply-To: soholder@eos.ncsu.edu (Sheldon Owen Holder) Name: Owen Holder Age: 19 M.S.: It is going to be a while Kids: None Employment: I E student at North Carolina Stat University Number of Sets in collections: approx. 10 Number of pieces: Don't have them here, and have not counted Oldest set: Early-80's Basic Favorite Themes: Technics Favorite Set in Collection: Mid-80's 4.5 Volt motor Technic Set (get over it, I have not had the money to updaye yet!)
From: JWSSAUER@WEDGE.watstar.uwaterloo.ca (J Sauer) Date: Sun, 15 Jan 1995 20:56:37 GMT Name: Jacob Sauer Age: 19 Profession: Engineering student at University of Waterloo, Canada. Lego sets: Many Pieces: 15 years worth Favourite theme: Castle Best construct: Tie fighter that I built just last year Comments: This is the first time I've seen this group. It was great to find so many people who share a love for lego. I still take time to check out the latest sets at the local toy store.
From: lou@tfnet.ils.unc.edu (Lou Sortman) Date: 16 Jan 1995 16:10:45 GMT Name: Lou Sortman Age: 27 M.S.: single Kids: 0 Employment: UNIX system administrator / net.guru Number of Sets in Collection: 10-20 Number of Pieces: thousands; never counted Oldest Set: Expert Builder auto chasis frmo the late '70s Favorite Theme: Technic Favorite Set: Air Tech Claw Rig Been collecting since: ~1977 - hiatus - resumed ~1990 Whoever dies with the most LEGO wins.
From: flournoy@Xenon.Stanford.EDU (Raymond Suke Flournoy) Date: 16 Jan 1995 21:12:48 GMT Name: Raymond S. Flournoy Age: 28 M.S.: Single Kids: None Employment: Graduate student, Instructor Number of Sets in Collection: maybe around 50? Number of Pieces: ? Oldest Set: some flat trees and joined-2x2 vehicle hitches from wa-a-ay back Favorite Themes: Castle Favorite Piece in Collection: the ghost! flournoy@cs.stanford.edu Computer Science Dept. Stanford University, CA
From: Jordan Maynard <maynard@ucssun1.sdsu.edu> Date: 17 Jan 1995 06:57:32 GMT Name: Jordan D. Maynard Age: 19.8 Occupation: Student SDSU/ Product Analyst: Electronic Arts Married: Not! Kids: See above. Number of sets in collection: 90+ Number of pieces: 5000+ Oldest Set: Ok, it is a Space Truck with a rocket on it and two pure yellow Space Mini-figs without visors. Early 80s. Favorite Themes: Castle, Space, AQUAZONE! Favorite Set: right now I think its the Big Dragon Masters castle. 6082 Favorite thing I've built: A fantasy D&D style town that took most of the floor space in my room. We used it for a role-playing campaign in which all the characters were mini-figs (or dragons!). I wrote all the rules for the combat before I ever heard of LEGOwars.
From: sally@Violet.CCIT.Arizona.EDU (Sally_Garnaat)
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 1995 17:37:57 GMT
Reply-To: sally@Violet.CCIT.Arizona.EDU
Name: Sally Garnaat Ben Lynn
Age: 43 10 6
M.S.: married nope nope
Kids: yes nope nope
Occupation: Comp App Spec student student
# Sets: 10 hundreds 25-30?
# Pieces: Hundreds Thousands and thousands hundreds
First Sets: Majesto wkshop Duplo misc Lego 3+ plastic box
('handed down Duplos')
(but they weren't )
(ever really mine )
Oldest Sets: " Lego (mom sold the Duplo) Lego 3+ box
(shame on Mom)
Favorite Set: Imperial Trading Last one bought
Post
Favorite Theme: Town Space/Castle/ Belville
Aquazone
Since I can't keep track of what my son has, I made a list of what instruction
books he has. It came in VERY handy at birthday/Chistmas time. I also kept
track of prices for comparison shopping. It is a nice way of seeing what
we have, but is no longer being made. Or what sets we should have bought
but didn't! (I went thru shop at home this summer and entered every item
in the catalog).
By the way, I called Dacta and ordered their catalog. The voice message
system said it would be shipped in 48 hrs. We'll see how long it takes to get
here (now that my son has spent his Christmas money!)
From: "Rev. Doktor Drew" <drewt@rain.org>
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 1995 11:07:33 -0800
Name: Andrew "Dr. Drew" Tuttle
Age: 31
M.S.: double (un-hitched yet very attached)
Kids: Igby (an iguana puppet), Zilla (a plush Godzilla), Tiger Bear (a
large brown teddy bear given to me by my sweetheart), etc.
Employment: None (see location)
Number of sets in collection: more than 20
Number of pieces: more than 20 to the 3rd power
Oldest set: A yellow trailer truck from about 1970
Favorite theme: Islander (currently) also fond of Space
Favorite set in collection: My motorized Technic set
Location: Santa Barbara, California
Andrew Tuttle
Rev. Doktor Drew
drewt@rain.org
drewt@io.com
From: donnac@myhost.subdomain.domain (Donna Coumarianos) Date: Tue, 17 Jan 1995 09:17:43 GMT Name: Donna Coumarianos Age: 25 Marital Status: Nearly married Kids: 4 cats Employment: Admin Officer Number of Sets in collection: 6 sets, plus a number of smaller kits (you dont really count them as sets do you?) and childhood lego bricks. Number of pieces: unknown Oldest set: the lego set I was given when i was about five, would have been in 1974 or 19755. I have no memory of the box it came in, so I do not know what it was supposed to make. Lots of pieces and red roof tiles. Also a family with figures about 6cm high, much larger than minifigures. I still have the little girl from the family intact. Favorite theme: technic, town Location: Brisbane, Australia I am very new to this newsgroup and to lego collecting. My boyfriend and I have only been seriously into lego since about christmas last year. It all started about 6 months ago when we helped some people clean up their house and came away with a small amount of someones lego collection in a tuperware container large enough to fit a cake inside. It sat in a cupboard for six months, then one day just before xmas I walked passed it and decided it was time I washed it. That was it - we were hooked. We both had lego as children, Peters had long since died, but I went over to my mothers and got mine. We got a catalogue, bought six technics kits, got a friend of ours to lend us his childhood lego (he is only ninteen or so, so he had 6080 a cool castle, a train station, and heaps of space stuff), and here we are.
From: hoffinemc@alpha.hendrix.edu (MC SUCKA FOO)
Date: 17 Jan 95 11:53:26 -0600
Name: Matt Hoffine
Age: 21
M.S.: Single
Kids: yes, we are
Employment: Student...Hendrix College
Major: Double major Philosophy and psychology...not smart enough to be
An engineer like most of you...sigh
# of sets: um...100's?
# of pieces: Don't ask
oldest set: All I remeber about it is the person had bendy arms, and a very
large head
Favorite theme: Old space freak...recent Castle convert
Fav. set: Yellow caste...because of the face guards
Favorite thing i have build: A Monkey juicer....it squeezes the juice out
of the monkeys, parrots, and islanders so the
Wizards have something to drink.
Location: School is in Conway, Arkansas....20 min. N of Little Rock
Home is Houston, Tx
I thought my obsession with LEGO's was some sort of childhood trauma...now I'm
at least glad that is isn't unique.
From: s900883@minyos.xx.rmit.EDU.AU (George Georgiou) Date: 16 Jan 1995 07:26:16 GMT Name: George Georgiou Age: 23 M.S.: Single Kids: Nope Employment: Uni Student. (Aerospace Engineering) Number of sets in collection: about 13 Number of pieces: about 5000 Oldest set: LL914 spaceship, (I can remember getting the old floating police boat, which had mini-figs with non-moveable limbs.) but I only have a headless minifig remaining. Favorite theme: Space, Castle Favorite set in collection: Not too sure (I love my mini-figs) Location: Melbourne, Australia.
From: hollis@jacobs.mn.org (Holly Kilheffer)
Date: 17 Jan 1995 21:23:24 GMT
Name: Holly Kilheffer
Age: 25
Occupation: Freelance Artist/Writer
Married: Almost, but not quite (Aug. '95)
Kids: Bleck! Ick! Yuck! Then I'd have to share! :)
Number of sets in collection: 30
Number of pieces: haven't gotten around to counting them yet -- too busy
using them!
Oldest Set: First set I remember getting was a tow rig (#1572 -- 1985?)
Favorite Themes: Castle, Trains
Favorite Set: Train! (I've got the Load 'n' Haul, haven't peruaded the guy
to get me the new one yet :)
Favorite Thing I've Built: Caboose for Load 'n' Haul
General Comments: I've been wanting to collect LEGO since I was very little
(the neighbors had it and I didn't *waah* :) -- I finally
started while I was in high school. Since then I've been
able to persuade almost everyone who is a relative/friend
that "buying Holly LEGOs is a GOOD thing" But I've
made it difficult because 1) I don't like the space themes
2) I don't like anything that has the 3D molded bases and
3) I won't allow anyone (accept my fiancee) to buy me the
large ($75+) sets.
holly k/hollis@abu.mn.org/hollis@winternet.com
don't "r" to the header -- that address doesn't exist! :)
From: drake@wam.umd.edu (daedalus) Date: 18 Jan 1995 05:41:03 GMT Name: Paul D. Samuel Age: 21 M.S.: Nope Kids: None Employment: Student, undergaduate aeronautical engineer, Univ. of MD College Park Number of Sets in Collection: ~100, more or less Number of Pieces: No Idea Oldest Set: Spirit of St. Louis, circa 1975, 76? Set number unknown Favorite Themes: Space, but I think I'm going to really like Aquazone as well (It's sort of space like...) Favorite Set in Collection: I can't narrow it down any further than these 4 sets, so here goes: Blacktron Renegade 6954 Space Police Spy-Trak 1 6895 Inter-Galactic Command Base 6971 X-1 Patrol Craft 6861
From: char@sunburn.racal.com (Charlotte Noll) Reply-To: char@sunburn.racal.com Date: Wed, 18 Jan 1995 13:58:59 GMT Name: Charlotte Noll char@sunburn.racal.com Age: 36 M.S.: Married Kids: 5YO son Justin Employment: Programmer Number of Sets in Collection: about 30-40 Number of Pieces: 2 big Plano tackle boxes full and overflowing Oldest Set: Just started collecting when Justin was 2-3YO. Favorite Themes: Space, Technic and New Aquazone Favorite Set in Collection: The 2 new Aquazone submarines are great. My son and I checked out all the toy stores in the area over the last few weeks and bought all the new Aquazone sets except the big one. That will have to wait until our birthdays later this year. Location: South Florida, USA Bragging: My 5YO son put together his first set from the instructions all by himself the other day. It was the new small Apollo space set and boy was he proud of himself. He's always built stuff made up on his own which is great but he always thought the instructions were too hard. Can't stop him now - he's off and building.
From: mdoar@amaryllis (Matthew Doar) Date: 18 Jan 1995 16:18:27 GMT Reply-To: mdoar@net.com Name: Matthew Doar Age: 28 M.S. To be married in April Kids: None Employment: Software Engineer, Networking Number of sets in collection: 100 in lifetime Number of pieces: no idea Oldest set: Basic set from 1971 Favorite Themes: technic, absolutely Favorite set: Supercar Matthew B. Doar Ascom Nexion, Inc. mdoar@nexen.com 289 Great Road, +1 508 266 3468 Acton, MA 01720, USA
From: dan@thyme.jpl.nasa.gov (Dan Allard) Date: 18 Jan 1995 10:03:05 -0800 Name: Dan Allard Age: 25 M.S.: Single, living with SO Kids: None (well, 1 Iguana) Employment: Programmer/Engineer Number of Sets in Collection: 20-30 Number of Pieces: Unknown (see notes) Oldest Set: Also unknown Favorite Themes: Castle (Forestmen, Black Knight), Pirates Favorite Set in Collection: Forestman's Fortress Education: BS in Engineering Physics, Tufts U. in Boston MA Notes: Some years ago I bought a large box of lego from a friend for 20$, including a lot of the old space sets (the ones with blue and grey pieces, plain spacemen), which is unfortunately still in Boston at my parents house. I can't even guess how many pieces there are in it. I am sure that my oldest set is somewhere here.
From: talbot@vangelis.sandiegoca.attgis.com (Steve Talbot) Date: Thu, 19 Jan 1995 04:09:15 GMT Name: Eric Talbot Age: 11 Emploment: 5th grade Number of sets: 2 (that are still built) Number of pieces: 1000? Favorite Themes: Space, Technic Favorite Set: Recon Robot Oldest Set: Dragsters from 1990 -- Steve.Talbot@SanDiegoCA.NCR.COM NCR Corporation, LCPD-San Diego 16550 West Bernardo Dr. San Diego, CA 92127
From: gcs@dsto.defence.gov.au (Gary Speechley)
Date: 19 Jan 1995 05:49:05 GMT
Reply-To: gcs@dsto.defence.gov.au
Name: Gary Speechley
Age: 38
Location: Hurstville, NSW Australia
Occupation: Researcher, submarine sonars
Married: Yes, 11 years
Kids: 1 upstart miniature Schnauzer
Number of sets: 40+
Number of pieces: who knows?
Oldest Set: The one I got when I was MUCH, MUCH younger, still with
the original boxes and fold-out town plan.
Favorite Themes: Technic
Favorite Set: The large Technic helicopter
Favorite Construction: I used to make submarines, four feet long.
My first job was with Lego. Their distribution centre was located
where my father worked as part of the Taubmans paint factory at
Villawood. (I think there was a link between Coultalds/Taubmans/Lego
here in Australia in the early days). My job was to complete demo
models received from Denmark if they were damaged in transit. I
recall receiving a half-completed model ship and asked to do the
superstructure. To achieve this, a stack of water-damaged boxes were
delivered to me with the offer that I could keep anything I didn't
need for the ship. Needless to say, I was in to minimalist structures
long before engineers discovered finite-element analysis! My father
eventually became a storeman for Lego, and in my early teens, I'd have
a job during school holidays and some weekends filling orders on the
warehouse, or helping to unload the latest container shipment.
It was my first paying job!
---
D E P A R T M E N T O F D E F E N C E
Defence Science & Technology Organisation
Contact Details: Gary.Speechley@dsto.defence.gov.au
Gary C Speechley CIS: [100236,2246]
DSTO Australia Wk: +61 2 6921432 ph
PO Box 44 +61 2 6600019 fx
PYRMONT NSW 2009 Hm: +61 2 5703870 ph/fx
From: bowerm@hfsi.hfsi.com (Michael Bower) Date: Thu, 19 Jan 1995 13:47:20 GMT Name: Michael F. Bower Age: 48 M.S.: Married Kids: 2 girls, 2 boys (11, 8.5, 6.5, 5) Employment: data comm engineering, project manager Number of Sets in Collection: Unknown Number of Pieces: Unknown Oldest Set: Basic set from early 80's Favorite Themes: Space -- Michael Bower HFS Inc. bowerm@hfsi.com 7900 Westpark Dr. (703) 827-3559 (w) MS-804
From: jwrasse@ezinfo.ucs.indiana.edu (john d wrasse) Date: 27 Jan 1995 19:35:42 GMT Name: John Wrasse AGE: 27 M.S.: Married KIDS: Not human; 2 cats and 1 dog EMPLOYMENT: Indiana University Bookstore NUMBER OF SETS: 10+ NUMBER OF PIECES: 2500+ FAVORITE THEME: Technic FAVORITE SET: First Technic set - Go Kart OLDEST SET: Part of the Lego Town CURRENT PROJECT: Lego Cuckoo Clock (this is not a set - yet)
From: jasonha@bgnet.bgsu.edu (Jason Haislet) Date: 28 Jan 1995 17:31:52 GMT Reply-To: jasonha@bgnet.bgsu.edu (Jason Haislet) I just found this Lego newsgroup and i am so excited :) :) :) I have had lego since i was about 5, every year for Christmas I got at least one set of Legos, usually more. I most Have the Town system. I do have a few Questions. 1) where do i find the FAQ for r.t.l? 2) are there any ftp sites? 3) are there any Lego stores? 4) does the Lego company pay poeple for new ideas? 5) is anybody planning a trip to LegoLand? I have created some awesome vechiles and buildings in my Lego years Just some general info. about me Name: Jason Haislet Age: 20 School: Bowling Green State Univeristy City: Bowling Green State: Ohio Major: Theatre I hope to be a regular poster on this newsgroup.
From: deroo@sproing.ultranet.com (John DeRoo) Date: Sat, 28 Jan 1995 19:38:16 LOCAL Name: John DeRoo M.S.: Divorced Physical Age: 29 Mental Age: 16 Children: 2 Employment: Electrical Engineer (digital chip design for disk drives) Number of Sets: Several of my own, plus several more I "share" with my kids Number of pieces: Many Oldest Set: ~6 yrs - All of my childhood sets "somehow disappeared" while I was a teeneager and I didn't notice until I was about 23 :-( Favorite Themes: Technics, Lego-Logo (conceptually) Favorite Set in Collection: Oh, yeah, all the pieces *did* come from individual sets, didn't they? I particularly like playing with the pneumatic pieces and with the other power-transmission pieces. Location: Marlborough, Mass. Sets I Most Desire: 1) The Technic set with the electric pneumatic pump. 2) A Lego-Logo RS232ish interface Most Memorable Building Accomplishments: A hanging monorail I built when I was 10 after going to Disney Land and an implementation of a vehicle suspension system that I found in Nasa Tech Briefs (mine was simpler and the working model was a *lot* cheaper!) Current Project(s): None :-( John DeRoo, Marlborough, MA. E-Mail: deroo@sproing.ultranet.com
From: iridian@netcom.com (Rebecca Glenn) Date: Mon, 30 Jan 1995 14:23:56 GMT Name: Becky Glenn (iridiank@netcom.com) Age: 27 M.S: Single Kids: No Employment: Desktop Publishing for a major Defense Contractor Number of Sets in Collection: lots Number of Pieces: lots more Oldest Set: Universal Building Set from 70s Favorite Themes: Space, Castle, Pirate Favorite Set: Difficult to say, but it's a draw between my Galaxy Explorer (one of the first space sets) and the King's Castle (the grey one that came out just after the yellow one) Extra Tidbit: I remember this old old set I used to have, and I know I still have the pieces but somehow the instructions went astray. It was one of those London buses, with two levels. If anyone knows what I'm talking about, I'd appreciate knowing that it's not just an acid flashback. -- rlg the reaper iridian@netcom.com and rebecca_glenn@fmc.com
From: mohonk94@aol.com (Mohonk94) Date: 1 Feb 1995 00:20:23 -0500 Reply-To: mohonk94@aol.com (Mohonk94) Name: Chris Stoffel Age: 31 Married: no Kids: no Occupation: Group Billing Administrator at Mohonk Mountain House Career goal: Lego Robotics Programmer Number of Sets:15+ Number of Pieces: not enough + Oldest Set: Air Tech Claw Rig - starting over again, somewhere in my parents attic the really old pieces are waiting to be rediscovered. Favorite Themes: Technic Favorite Set: Air Tech Claw Rig Favorite Things: wheels, motors and pneumatics General Comments: with an interest in computers and robots, I think the Technic sets will let me explore more and have fun at the same time. I'm looking forward to integrating my computers with my Lego sets. Time for fun now and get serious later.
From: Ryan Hagglund <rhagglun@paul.spu.edu> Date: Tue, 31 Jan 1995 22:19:13 -0800 Name: Ryan Hagglund AGE: 20 M.S.: Single EMPLOYMENT: Full-time student at Seattle Pacific University NUMBER OF SETS: 50+ NUMBER OF PIECES: I don't even want to try to count that high FAVORITE THEME: Space FAVORITE SET: I don't know, I buy the sets for the pieces, not for the model they are intended to make OLDEST SET: The old fire station (I got it when I was four). It was before they had the station doors that scrolled up and lego figures with moving arms and feet. CURRENT PROJECT: I don't have room in my dorm room for my Legos; I had to leave them at home :( Ryan Hagglund Seattle Pacific University Seattle, Washington rhagglun@paul.spu.edu
From: stone@uno.cc.geneseo.edu (Leonie Stone) Date: Wed, 1 Feb 1995 14:35:06 UNDEFINED Name: Lee Stone AGE: 34 M.S.: Married (to Paul who doesn't quite get the Lego thing but doesn't complain either) KIDS: Jonathan (8 months-- too little for Duplo); cats (Edgar, Igor, Chan) who think they _are_ the right age, dog (Galen) who is disgusted by everything EMPLOYMENT: Assistant Professor of Economics, SUNY Geneseo NUMBER OF SETS: 30? NUMBER OF PIECES: you must be kidding.... FAVORITE THEME: Castle, Pirates, Train FAVORITE SET: Any of the train stuff OLDEST SET: Gears from my childhood CURRENT PROJECT: Filling my office with Lego
From: reuel_victa@cpqm.saic.com Date: 3 Feb 1995 17:31:53 GMT Name: Reuel Victa AGE: 33 M.S.: Married (wife's name is Terry) KIDS: 6-year old rabbit (Koko) EMPLOYMENT: Programmer/Analyst (Science Applications International Corp.) NUMBER OF SETS: 20+ NUMBER OF PIECES: We'll let the kids count 'em when we have some. FAVORITE THEME: Space, Technic FAVORITE SET: The helicopter. My little cousins and friends like to play with it. OLDEST SET: Some odds and ends from long ago. CURRENT PROJECT: Setting up a town in one of our spare rooms to include our monorail.
From: scottec@netcom.com (Scott Cunningham)
Date: Sat, 4 Feb 1995 16:13:42 GMT
Name: Scott Cunningham
AGE: 26 (mentaly 10)
M.S.: Engaged (wife's name will be Kathy)
KIDS: Dog (mixed Malties - Peaches) Cat (American shorthair - Corky Sherwood)
EMPLOYMENT: Service Bureau Tech
NUMBER OF SETS: 5 (third start - previously 30+)
NUMBER OF PIECES: 1241
FAVORITE THEME: Pirates + Space (Hah! Space Pirates!)
FAVORITE SET: The ones I gave away :-( [snif] (But I'll have new
favorites soon!)
OLDEST SET: Then - Some Samsonite Now - #1715 400pc wonder!
CURRENT PROJECT: Rebuilding my empire of long ago
From: blairiii_r@uhdvx3.dt.uh.edu (Ken Blair) Date: 5 Feb 1995 17:41 CST Name: Ken Blair Age: 23 Married: no Kids: no Occupation: Full time student @ The University of Houston (downtown) Career goal: To graduate from college Number of Sets: 150+ (estimate) Number of Pieces: 25,452+ (count) Oldest Set: #653 - Legoland, small, white red cross helicopter and ambulance from about 1975 or so. Favorite Themes: Technic, train Favorite Set: #8088 Technic Super Car & #4558 Metroliner train set. General Comments: I've been collecting Lego sets for about 19 or 20 years, and after a long lapse, I've recently been very interested in the Technic and train series. I have a Lego railroad made up of over 200+ rail sections that is attached to the ceiling of my apartment. While this is not the best place for a railroad, it's all I have room for. The switch tracks are remote-controlled pneumaticly, using all Lego parts except most of the 80 feet of air tubing which was cheaper at the local hobby store. ---(> Ken Blair - blairiii_r@dt3.dt.uh.edu
From: jkelly3@ix.netcom.com (John Kelly III) Date: 6 Feb 1995 04:14:23 GMT Name: John Kelly III Age: 23 Married: Yup Kids: Nope Occ: Formally LEGO Model Builder; now Computer Tech #of sets: >500 #of pcs: >30,000 oldest set: Orginal Space Lander (Eagle One, I think) favorite themes: train,space,town,aquazone,castle favorite set: Super Car 8808 i worked for LSI in enfield for a year and half as a model builder. i helped build the Invention Adventure (moving to Baltimore I think), toy fair exhibits for 1994, (25x islander firgure, others), and parts of the mall of america change over in 1994. i have a ton of sets that i had been collecting since i was seven. when i ran out of money for college in fall 1992, i came to work at LEGO imagination centre in mpls. after six months there, i was sent to enfield to be a model builder. time of my life. every brick of every color in every shape. technically, we are only allowed to use elements that are found in sets at the time of creation. (2x4 green bricks are made and are allowed because you could make those out of 2x4 green plates.) my wife and i got married after meeting at LIC(LEGO Imagination Centre) it was a "LEGO" wedding. we had LEGO centerpieces on all the tables, and had playtables and a eight foot tower at the reception. i'm new to the 'net, so i don't know how many times these questions have been answered and since i do not have a unlimited bank account, i will not be able to go over all the messages. please email if there are questions i can answer about model building. john kelly p.s. if you email, tell me what my address is. i got on the net esp. to see this newsgroup. (the company mentioned it.)
From: mmany@gosset.math.uno.edu ( Meredith Many)
Date: Mon, 6 Feb 1995 18:38:56 GMT
Name: Meredith Many
AGE: 42
M.S.: Yes (tolerant husband David Eatman)
KIDS: Two - one 3.5 yr old boy(John) - we "share" the legos
and one 12 yr old Siamese cat(Sparky)
EMPLOYMENT: math instructor - university of new orleans
NUMBER OF SETS: 15 (?)
NUMBER OF PIECES: not enough
FAVORITE THEME: Pirates(John) + Castles + Town (me)
FAVORITE SET: no specific set, but favorite pieces: the pirate minifig
with hook on one hand (Captain Hook), a miscellaneous pirate (Smee), and
one lone forestman (Peter Pan)
OLDEST SET: Misc Duplo train pieces - bought second hand - have sustained
1.5 years of constant play.
CURRENT PROJECT: On the drawing board: We'd like to build some sort of
Never Never Land. Involves building and painting the right size table,
then construction of the important parts. The pirates ship is the easy
part, the indian camp, mermaid lagoon, and hangmans tree are still in
hazy idea form. Any suggestions?
From: rgregory@dseg.ti.com (Ron Gregory)
Reply-To: rgregory@dseg.ti.com
Date: Mon, 6 Feb 1995 15:58:12 GMT
Name: Ron Gregory
AGE: 31
M.S.: Married 11 years - wife Tracey
KIDS: Austin (just turned 3 on 1/31)
Samantha (dog - German Sheppard mix - will be 2 on 7/10)
EMPLOYMENT: Software Engineer - Texas Instruments, Plano, TX
NUMBER OF SETS: 30+
NUMBER OF PIECES: 25,000+
FAVORITE THEME: Space/Technic/Train
FAVORITE SET(s): Load N' Haul RR, space monorail, and Technic Control Center
OLDEST SET: old gear set
CURRENT PROJECT: Building a custom LEGO table with drawers and plexiglass top.
Tracey sold the one I built previously, and I haven't built
any LEGO projects, since. I need a new table to inspire me.
From: giannone@valkyrie.LightStream.COM (Tony Giannone)
Date: 7 Feb 1995 10:43:02 -0500
Name: tony giannone
AGE: 38 (next week :-)
M.S.: married
KIDS: Greg (3), Jessica (11), and Aimee (13)
EMPLOYMENT: manufacturing engineer
NUMBER OF SETS: ~30
NUMBER OF PIECES: a whole bunch
FAVORITE THEME: none
FAVORITE SET: the next one
OLDEST SET: don't know (started buying LEGO when Greg was 1yo)
CURRENT PROJECT: create a unique toy for Greg (i.e. one that he won't feel
compelled to destroy minutes after its completion :-)
From: hermit@cats.UCSC.EDU (William R. Ward)
Date: 07 Feb 1995 19:54:09 GMT
Name: William R. Ward
AGE: 23
M.S.: 'living in sin'
KIDS: 0
EMPLOYMENT: Contractor (Unix System Admin/Programmer)
NUMBER OF SETS: lots
NUMBER OF PIECES: lots
FAVORITE THEME: Space & Technic
FAVORITE SET: anything with lots of cool pieces
OLDEST SET: probably the Family set, but some pieces are probably missing
CURRENT PROJECT: none at the moment; last project was a 3-4 foot long
spaceship with lots of cool features
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From: s3500075@nickel.laurentian.ca Date: 7 Feb 95 22:35:26 -0500 Here's my shot! I've been lurking for a while since I found the group and this makes a good introduction: Name: Heather Fraser AGE 20 LOCATION Sudbury,Ontario MS Engaged (Brian, date as yet unset) KIDS None yet (thank god, I'm not done with my lego yet!!) EMPLOYMENT Geology/Engineering Student @ Laurentian University // Keeping useless profs employed, and learning from the good ones #OF SETS 3 @ University and ?? at home #OF PIECES Never Enough FAVOURITE THEME Castles FAVOURITE SET All of them OLDEST SET The house set I was given at my first Christmas (aged 18 days) as a joke on my father who I still have to fight off to get at the lego. CURRENT PROJECT Avoiding exam/study stress and trying to find unique ideas for my wedding Funny but true: I have no depth perception and find it difficult to think in 3-d. When I came to University last year I got strange looks around res. as I'd build models to help with my engineering projects. While tutoring in res this year on calculus (area of revolution with integrals) I got out the lego and spread it out on the common kitchen table to show my point. Everyone called me crazy, but the end result was a 90% on the test, and all night lego fest (5am when I went to bed) and about 10 people bringing back lego after Christmas Break!!
From: kittle@sde.hp.com (Ron Kittle)
Date: 9 Feb 1995 17:13:58 GMT
Reply-To: kittle@fc.hp.com
I figured I better add my name to the list, since Mark Hornblower is
going to post statistics...
Name: Ron Kittle
Age: 31
M.S: Single
Kids: No, just nieces
Employment: Software Engineer at HP
Number of Sets in Collection: 30+
Number of Pieces: 11,000+
Oldest Set: Large gears from 70s, etc. I've got some of those "Two 2x2
'wafer thin' flats connected by a plastic stem" pieces. :-)
Favorite Themes: Technic, Trains
Favorite Set: Super Car #8880, hands down.
Favorite Creation: A Lego Shay steam locomotive. A Shay is a geared
locomotive, with three upright pistons on one side.
My Lego version uses the technic pistons, which pump
as the engine moves (powered off one of the wheels).
Shays were used mostly for logging operations, which
required narrow gauge tracks, tight turns, and steep
grades. That makes the Lego turns a little more
realistic. :-) I plan to put a jpg file on the net
when I get pictures of it.
From: ktatroe@badgercom.com (k.tatroe) Date: Thu, 09 Feb 1995 12:31:06 -0700 Name: kevin tatroe Age: 23 (or 10, or so :) M.S: SNG (single nice guy) Kids: Two cats; they contribute by breaking things Job: Software Engineer at BadgerCom Software; teacher-in-training # Sets: 300+ # Pieces: 75,000+ (by PPH (piece per head) estimation) Oldest Set: Eagle One (lunar lander) Fav. Themes: Islanders, Technic, Castle, Pirates Fav. Set: All of the Islanders, all pre-87ish Castle Current project: Designing a cathedral. A friend and I have gotten the north wing (the nave, I believe) completed. It's about five SCP (standard castle pieces) tall, and one-and a half of the large gray plates long. We are beginning to run out of pieces, so we're not sure how on earth we're going to do the other three wings. It has a pipe organ. I might try to borrow a friend's QuickTake 100 to do jpegs.
From: ea93boma@hj.se (Magnus Boivie) Date: 9 Feb 1995 15:20:58 GMT Name: Magnus Boivie Age: 21 M.S.: At parents and brother Kids: 0 Employment: economic studying at university Number of Sets in Collection: lots Number of Pieces: lots Oldest Set: From the beginning of the 70:s Favorite Themes: Trains and Technics Favorite Set in Collection: Technics fork-lift truck Location : Jönköping, Sweden
From: normmoesch@aol.com (NormMOesch) Date: 10 Feb 1995 07:51:39 -0500 Reply-To: normmoesch@aol.com (NormMOesch) Name: Norm M Oesch AGE: 29 M.S.: almost :) KIDS: none, they're _my_ LEGO bricks OCCUPATION: Warehouse Manager NUMBER OF SETS: 78(in my 2nd incarnation of LEGO obsession) NUMBER OF PIECES: more than 3(well, it is) OLDEST SET: Black Monarch's Castle(this time round) FAVORITE THEMES: Train FAVORITE SET: the Trial Size pack my fiancee gave me that rekindled my love of LEGO toys
From: justjm24@aol.com (JustJM24) Date: 16 Feb 1995 20:36:17 -0500 Reply-To: justjm24@aol.com (JustJM24) Name: Jean Ledoux AGE : 43 SINGLE KIDS: Girl 23, Boy22, Girl21 EMPLOY: Self #Sets, 40+ #Pieces, Still computing...am working on a data base now FAVORITE..Theme, Legoland...SET Big Truck Stop...love Vehicles! OLDEST SET: Space ship, early 1970's Always looking to buy sell or trade....
From: mmccall@vader.cc.emory.edu (Utopia's Princess of the Universe)
Date: 19 Feb 1995 21:45:44 -0600
I'm having probs with my newsreader, so I will try to do this by memory.
Name: Malinda
AGE: 29 (I think)
Marital Status: single ("living in sin" for past four years)
KIDS: No. LEGOs are mine, all mine. :)
OCCUPATION: Ophthalmology librarian at Emory U. Hosp.
EDUCATION: BA in Fine Arts, BA in English, minor in Communictations
# of PIECES: Er, are you kidding? Answers (choose one):
[a] Too damn many (when no models are built and I have to store them)
[b] Too damn few (especially of one piece/color when building from
imagination)
[c] A kajillion
[d] lots
# of SETS: Um, what constitutes a set? Does a $2.79 Black Knight count as
a set because it is in a box by itself? (See below for listing.)
Claim to Fame: Using LEGOs as stress therapy, building six houses around
a garden square last night using Mega Blox baseplates and a grey LEGO
baseplate: blue police station, yellow duplex, red hotel, white and pink
private home, red private home, pizzaria. Turn the baseplate, all the
buildings have open backs and multiple floors. Pizzaria has outdoor
dining, cars can go around several buildings and the square. No
particular reason. Swiped Mega Blox chandelier, turned it upside down and
made it a fountain in square.
What got me started: Bought #6237 (pirates with chest and parrot) and
#6401 Seaside Cabana together for under $8 when I accompanied my
boyfriend and our tenant/roommate David to TRU (they needed new Frisbees for
Frisbee Golf). That was last year. Never had LEGOs when younger. BF gave
me old pieces including a damaged baseplate that sounds like the one
everyone's discussing: 24 x 40.
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The "o"'s are white dots and the "x"'s are flat areas.
I also have some odd pieces like 1x2 and 2 x 3 POLICE bricks, a piece
that looks like a firetruck piece, some red and yellow "Legoland" bricks,
some red bricks with LEGO on them, a hinged "claw" for a crane, some
pulley/crane pieces, etc, all that Steve had when young. Many of his are
glue-damaged. (He was a destructive child and used to stage actual fires
in Legoland. Glue he used burned satisfactorily I guess.) Lots of old wheels.
SETS owned:
4151 Freestyle with pink items I already posted about, including pink floral
awnings, pink doors and two shades of pink windows, two shades of pink
flowers, pink 'champage' glasses, pink-topped Legolady
6405 Lost box. Horse and girl with grey pants and pink "horse" shirt,
pale green baseplate
6414 Dolphin Point
1860 Try Me! Freestyle in bag with Legoman
1670 Sampler with odd door and window (yellow, with red 2-wide sills)
6430 Police car _Night Patroller_ I posted about earlier w/ 9v lights/siren
6350 _Pizza To Go_ (Box damaged, have only back panel)
6664 _Chopper Cops_. Lost box.
6009 Black knight (smallest set owned) with knight and horse. Period. $2.79.
Yellow saddle for horse.
6034 _Black ??Monarch's?? Ghost_ ghost, knight, mini-castle w/ doors. Blue
saddle for horse.
6319 Trees and flags (kept only back panel of box)
6402 _Sidewalk Cafe'_
4162 Freestyle with green 2 x 3 curved pieces (2x2 top w/ curve, 2 x 3
bottom), green whip, green flag, red & white striped awnings, blue doors &
windows, red "coffee" mugs
6410 _Cabana Beach_
1967 _Bonus Pack ('with free windsurfer model!')_ Includes 1959
Chopper/Flight series, 1969 robot/Space Police series, 1970 flintlock
gun/cannon, two figs/Pirates series, 1971 catapult/Black Knights series,
windsurfer (red) with two buoys. Total of six male minifigs. Found at
Woolworth's in odd Lego package.
6411 _Sand Dollar Cafe'_
6056 _Dragon Wagon_ with dragon, yay! Red saddles for horses, red
'dragon' horse blinders.
6416 _Poolside Paradise_ Bought chiefly for the baseplate and large clear
pieces, mailbox.
6048 _Majisto's Magical Workshop_ Bought for Majisto. Hinged, opens by
putting halves on separate baseplates.
6314 _City People_ Bought for bicycle and champagne glasses (early
purchase, charm has since faded a little. :) )
4011 _Cabin Cruiser_ Gift, no box to be found, do have instructions. Does
float. Has shark.
545 Basic set--comes with six-partitions and two basepaltes to store
"all" your Legos. (Ha!)
6401 _Seaside cabana_. Lost box.
6105 _Medieval Knights_. I like the helmet decorations the best.
6237 Pirates with chest of gold, parrot. Lost box. Small sample set.
5140 Polybagged red bricks from S@H
5142 Polybagged white bricks from S@H
5137 Town accent pieces from S@H
5149 Doors and windows (these have green shutters, red pieces and white
accents)
I have no desire to collect Technic people or Belville. I would collect
Space if I had room. I don't so I collect Town and Paradisa mostly, but I
can't resist the medieval figs/sets. :)
Fave sets: all. Also: last set bought, set I plan to buy next...sets I can't
afford...
Fave pieces: usually the little accent pieces like glasses, animals,
brushes and shovels, swords, plumes and helmet decorations, treasure
chests, bikes, etc. The minifigs are my favorite pieces. :) I don't have
nearly enough hair for the women, though. I do have a LOT of caps.
Majisto w/ wand and dragon and 'scroll'. Knight with ghost. 9V police car.
Least favorite piece: Mega Blox :), tiny 'roof' flats.
(Mega sets I own: barrel of 1000 pieces, blockblaster, house.)
Sets I want BADLY: (Santa? I've been REALLY good...)
6339 Shuttle
6597 Airport
6562 Octan station
6044 King's carriage
6008 King on horseback
6398 Knight with skeleton
6398 Police station
The infamous "Midnight Transport" set I forgot the number to.
6483 _Coastal Patrol_ (9V set)
6399 _Airport Shuttle_
6409 _Island Arcade_ (mostly for minifigs, glasses and seats)
6376 _Breezeway Cafe'_ It's a restaurant with RED accents and a minifig
with a Stetson hat.
6273 _Rock Is. Refuge_
4163 Freestyle (with motor/9V)
4161 Freestyle with more figs and a storage case.
565 Build-and-store chest
737 Freestyle with firetruck & 9V lights/siren action
6419 _Rolling Acres_ To 'complete' Paradisa, though I dislike the Acrade
and Playground sets in comparison to other sets
4554 _Metrostation_ *****
4558 _Metroliner_ *****
4548 Speed regulator
4547 _Club Car_ ********
6345 _Aerial Acrobats_
6090 King's castle
4539 RR Crossing w/ guard
6666 Ambulance
6254 _Pirate's Plunder_
6539 _Victory Cup Racers_
6571 Firehouse (not _Fire Control Center_)
Another idea for lurking LEGO employees: LEGO post office! Children can
enjoy putting letters into lock boxes and blue postal boxes (red for UK
sets), putting the happy mailman in his postal truck with lots of yellow
and white letterds and packages (I imagine some flats printed with sheets
o stamps and flats printed to resempble magazines.) Adults can get a
flintlock gun and play "Disgruntled postal worker!" If a deluxe set, you
can have a motorized conveyor belt moving all the deposited mail to a
waiting bag or container w/ wheels and LOTS of disgruntled postal
workers. :) Maybe a working teeny bell on the counter. Don't forget flats
with "wanted" on them and a draft poster for US sets. :) Maybe even a
place to take "passport photos" complete with harrassed postal-
worker-in-charge-of-passport-stuff. Cool, huh?
I know I mentioned Santa, but I forgot to say that Majisto is already a
good model. Just change the color scheme a little. :)
Ta,
Malinda
From: rcarter@nyx10.cs.du.edu (Ron Carter) Date: 20 Feb 1995 14:30:37 -0700 Name: Ronald L. Carter Age: 40 Employment: President of own computer software company Education: Degrees in art history and EE Location: Colorado, USA Number of Sets in Collection: 30+, mostly small sets, plus buckets Number of Pieces: 5,000 plus Oldest Set: Some loose pieces of Samsonite era stuff Favorite Themes: Ice Planet, Islanders, Technic Favorite Set in Collection: Whatever one I am working on :-) LEGO Claim to Fame: Corrected a typo in one of the LEGO catalogs -- Ron Carter \ Director \ Center for the Study of Creative Intelligence CSCI \ Denver, CO USA \ "AAAAUUUUUUUUGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHH!" rcarter@nyx.cs.du.edu \ - Calvin
From: adf4@lns598.lns.cornell.edu (Andrew Foland) Date: 21 Feb 1995 23:55:16 -0500 Name: Andy Foland Age: 22 (yrs.) Sets: 70+ Pieces: 9000 (??) Oldest: Alpha-1 Rocket Base (contemporary with the infamous LL924) Favorite Set: 375/6075 Yellow Castle Theme Interests: Castle, Pirate Current Projects: Battle of Borodin using red and blue Imperial Guards (and one hapless Townee as Pierre Bezuhov); Cathedral. Anyone who finds/has blue Imperials will contribute greatly to the cause (though I gather I'm competing with Erik Wilson in this regard.)
From: kcg@vnet.ibm.com (Kevin Griffin) Name: Kevin Griffin Age: 24 M.S.: Single Kids: None Employment: Software Engineer Number of Sets in Collection: 79 Number of Pieces: Unknown Oldest Set: A set with faceless Lego figures. Favorite Themes: Space Favorite Set in Collection: Galaxy Explorer Location : Rochester, MN
From: jonesnm@mail.auburn.edu (Nancy M Jones) Name: Randall Jones Age: 41 M.S.: Married Kids: Preston,13 and Alana,10 Employment: Pediatrician # of sets: 45 or so Oldest Set: Basics sets from about 1984 Favorite Themes: Alana and me: Castles: Preston: Space, by far Favorite Set: Mach II Red Bird Rig Model Team (new this Christmas) Education: University of Georgia and Medical College of Georgia
From: Chad Leinaweaver <cleinawe@lynx.dac.neu.edu>
Name: Chad Leinaweaver
Age: 23
M.S.: single
Kids: not quite yet
Employment: graduate student of history at Northeastern University
in Boston
Number of Sets in Collection: 75-150
Number of Pieces: 10,000+
Oldest Set: Basic sets from the mid-seventies
Favorite Themes: Town
Favorite Set in Collection: Main Street (from 1980)
Location: Boston, Massachusetts cleinawe@lynx.neu.edu
From: cando@dorsai.org (Alex) Name: Alex Lis Age:18 Married: No Kids: No Employment: Electrical/computer Engineering student. Number of sets: Unkown, all pieces semi-sorted by type (plate, brick, window, etc) in containers. Number of pieces: Between 25000 - 26000 (close estimate). Oldest set: Original Main Street Fire Department set + unkown set circa 78-79. Favorite themes: B Favorite set: Technic pneumatic line & older main st. sets. Education: ...getting there.. credit by credit... Notes: Build (only) large, fully detailed (inside, out) buildings. Biggest gripe: Not being able to buy Lego in large quantities & LSAHS not having and WHITE WINDOW & DOOR SETS!!!!!! Red windows don't stand out with RED brick!!
From: Barry Shell <shell@sfu.ca> Name: Barry Shell shell@sfu.ca Age: 43 M.S.: Married Kids: 7YO son Sam Employment: Science Writer/ Hacker Number of Sets in Collection: 20 + Number of Pieces: Thousands + Oldest Set: ca. 1989 Favorite Themes: motorizing, Castles, Vehicles, Technic and New Aquazone Favorite Set in Collection: The electric motor and battery pack. Location: Vancouver, BC Canada Bragging: Interested in putting together an on-line team to create a Lego CD-ROM software game that allows you to build virtual 3D models rotate them, animate them and even play with others over the network. Ideally, in the true sense of the hacker ethic this would be shareware. I'm collecting ideas and names of interested programmers.
From: teel@is2.nyu.edu (teel) Name: Kay Teel Age: 27 Married: No Kids: No Employment: Librarian Number of sets: Circa 30, maybe Number of pieces: No idea Oldest set: I had basic building sets as a kid, which my wicked parents gave to a yard sale! The oldest set that I still own is one of the little blue spaceships, bought in 1986. Favorite themes: Pirates, Castle. Favorite set: Black Seas Barracuda. Education: B.A., History, Boston University; M.S., Library Science, Columbia University. Notes: Some well-meaning friends bought me some Paradisa for Christmas. Although I like the roulette wheel, and the ice cream truck is kinda nifty (esp. the yellow drawer that pulls out), I hate the pastel colors! Yuck!
From: David G Williams <dgwillia@willamette.edu> Date: Mon, 6 Mar 1995 20:20:50 -0800 Organization: Willamette University, Salem, OR, USA Name: David G. Williams Age: 20 E-Mail Address: dgwillia@willamette.edu Marital Status:Single Kids:NONE Employment: Student Location: Salem, OR Number of Sets Owned: I am not quite sure of this number. I have two huge boxes filled with legos. I'm thinking, somewhere in the hundreds. Number of Pieces: Again this is rather ambiguous. See above. Oldest Set: circa 1980 Favorite Theme(s): Definitely the Town Theme Favorite Set(s): I am rather partial to both the aquatic motif, i.e. the fire ship and the police and coast guard boats. I also have a certain flare for aviatic themes. I have a circa 87 airport that I enjoy. I must say, however, that I have always enjoyed purchasing the little sets. When I was a Kid I would save my allowance til I got like ten dollars and then go to Toys-R-Us and buy the most I could with that. I was never much into playing with the stuff I built. I mostly enjoyed building things and since most of my sets don't have the directions with them I was forced to use my imagination more than once. Thank goodness. When I would get stuck without a piece to fit a certain way. I would whip out the graph paper and design the piece that I desired. I think several times I had my mom mail them to Lego. I don't know if she ever did because I never got a response; however, some pieces that exist today bear a striking resemblence to those that I had designed...hmmmm. I think that my best creation was built around 85 or 86. I built a ski resort in my room. By propping up my bed sheets on chairs and such I created the mountains(I didn't have enough pieces to build a mountain out of Lego's at the time.) I built several chair lifts and a gondola that went from the top of one mountain to the top of the adjacent one. This resort was complete with several mountain top restaurants and a chateau at the base. I even had a parking lot filled with cars...It was a busy saturday. I think I took a picture of it. I have no Idea where those are but now I want to go find them. Well, I may have gone a bit long on this roll call thing, but I enjoy talking about my childhood legos. I regret not bringing at least some of them to college with me. I do purchase a set now and then and enjoy them to the fullest. After writing this my interest has been peaked, I would be interested in hearing about CREATIVE creations...not just the typical town setting or moon scape. Let's hear the good ones. Again, I apologize if this has gone longer than usual, but If you read it all, then I appreciate it and look forward to hearing about your creations/inventions.
From: weldridg@haverford.edu (William Eldridge Lemming Ultimate) Date: Thu, 16 Mar 1995 18:26:14 -0300 Organization: Haverford College Name: Robert DeRose Age: 22 Marital Status: not that I know of Kids: just me Education: I plan to receive my B.S. (Biology) in May, then it's off to grad school Number of sets owned: about 25-30 (including old ones that have been permanently dismembered) Number of pieces: probably a few thousand Oldest set: I have the mid-'70s Hospital and Fire Station, from the time when minifigs didn't have movable arms and legs Favorite sets/themes: Space in general, especially Spyrius. Probably 80% of my sets are various space themes. I've also managed to get the two smallest Aquazone sets (Sea Sprint 9 and the little Aquashark guy), and if I ever find the bigger Aquazone sets in the local stores they'll probably become new favorites. Probably my favorite single set is the Spyrius Saucer Centurion.
From: Captain Jingle <vandercl@grfn.org> Date: Fri, 17 Mar 1995 20:51:02 -0500 (EST) Organization: Bethany Christian Services Name: Bob VanderClay Age : 19 M.S. : Single Kids : None Employment : Student Number of sets : Approximately 45 Pieces in collection : probably somewhere near 5000 Oldest set : Can't remember exact set name, a poice station from circa 1980. I think... Favorite themes/sets : Space. Although the new Aquazone is beginning to win me over. Well, I'd like to introduce myself to this newsgroup. I've played with LEGO as far back as I can remember. Unfortunately though, as I matured, LEGO became less of a focus of my life, and too much of a cost, so I end through a period where I bought LEGO very infreqently. (As know as the Dark Ages). With my introduction into the Internet, I quickly found this group, and my interest in LEGO was perked. Hearing discussion of the new Aquazone really made me want back into the world of LEGo, well here I am, a few months later, a few hundred dollars less, and with about 20 more LEGO sets. It feels good to be back into it. I forgot how much I love the sound of new LEGOS in a box. Hee-hee.
From: thomas (Thomas JACQUES aka 'Woody') Date: 21 Jan 1995 11:49:39 GMT Organization: Ecole Centrale Paris, France Name: Thomas JACQUES Age: 21 M.S.: single Kids: none Employment: Student in Engineering Number of Sets in Collection: about 15 Number of Pieces: 3427, plus half a spaceman's helmet Oldest Set: early 80's: the 2 very first space sets Favorite Themes: Space & Technic | e-mail: thomas@jenlain.via.ecp.fr | | jacquet7@cti.ecp.fr | | phone: (1) 46.83.79.48 |
From: bigb@citation.ksu.ksu.edu (Bryan K Klostermeyer) Date: 20 Jan 1995 11:57:16 -0600 Organization: Kansas State University Sender: bigb@ksu.ksu.edu Name: Bryan Klostermeyer AGE: 22 M.S: Single, not looking KIDS: My roommate is pretty childish EMPLOYMENT: Chemical Engineering student at Kansas State Univ. NUMBER OF SETS: 50-60, I think NUMBER OF PIECES: Not nearly enough :) OLDEST SET: Early 80's space set FAVORITE THEMES: Castle, Pirate, Old space FAVORITE SETS: X-1 Patrol Craft spaceship; Whirlwind Rescue helicopter
From: jgarden@prograph.com (John Garden) Date: 26 Jan 1995 11:04:32 -0400 Organization: Prograph International Name: John Garden Age: 30 M.S.: 5 weeks !! Kids: Mike (12) - acquired in expansion draft - see above Employment: Programmer/Prographer Number of sets in collection: ~10 Number of pieces: ? Oldest Set: ? Favorite Themes: Technics, Pirates Favorite Set: 8868 Air Tech Claw Rig Education: BSc - Dalhousie University, MCS (almost 8-) Technical University of Nova Scotia Notes: All mine is Technic. The master plan is to build a large, completely autonomous robot with a micro-controller brain and 2K of intelligence. Currently side-tracked by all the other cool things Technic can do (that, and the fact that the dog got hold of the brain). Mike has a million sets (all themes) and a kazillion pieces, just waiting to be expropriated when I need them. Carla just got her first set - the Blue Fury. It's fantastic.
From: randyf@u.washington.edu (Randy Fabro) Date: 22 Jan 1995 05:40:31 GMT Organization: University of Washington Name: Nathan Fabro Age: 12 M.S.: are you kidding Kids: none except me Employment: Student Number of Sets in Collection: 50+ Number of Pieces: lots and lots Oldest Set: 1987 don't know what it's called Favorite Themes: SPACE (federation sets) Aquazone Favorite Set in Collection: Ice Station Odessy and Alphpa Centauri Outpost NAthan A. Fabro (NAte) lego collector since 1987
From: wette001@gold.tc.umn.edu (Eric Wetterlind) Organization: University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Date: Thu, 26 Jan 1995 03:23:31 GMT Name: Eric Wetterlind Age : 24 MS : Married Kids : No Education : CSci and Computer Engineering Occupation : Software engineer Number : Around 10000 (had some time to kill when wisdom teeth pulled) Sets : Around 100 or so. Favorites : Castle, Ice Planet Last Creation : A cool castle with a couple of draw-bridges (about 2'x2'x2'). It underwent a seige, though. My cat powered his way through the royal guard and made off with the princess. Took a while to find her head :) Just catching up on reading this group and a lot of people were referring to an old conveyor belt thing. I have this set (545 Conveyor station) with full instructions. Others mentioned were the London bus (760) and that rescue helicopter (480 or 770 <- one of which had an ambulance, too). They bring back memories. These sets are all from around '73-'75. My brother (avid collector, too) and I used to build space ships (fighting over the LL924 pieces from the Space Cruiser) and then put them through drop tests. The less that fell off from the highest distance won. Didn't really accomplish much, but passed the time and kept mom happy.
From: kiyose@beauty.ucsb.edu (Kiyose Ryu) Date: 27 Mar 1995 19:12:45 GMT Organization: University of California, Santa Barbara Name: Daniel Sabath Age: 23 Occupation: Inbetween schools I have a BA in Aquatic Bio and am taking time off before grad school. Oldest Set: I first got one of those firemens sets w/ the figures w/o movible arms but i don't know what happened to it...the oldest set i still have is the miniture and older version of a Galaxy Explorer look alike. BTW it is still assembled as i don't have the instructions... Number of sets: 200+ Number of pieces: ??? lots. Favorite type of set: space though they are finally geting around to my field with the aquazone...i have a rather nice mobile hanging above the dining room table ( and a very understanding SO). The model team sets also attract my $$$. Biggest pet peeve w/ lego: the reduction and combination of pieces in some sets. eg the walls in the castle sets. I don't mind specialization of pieces but making one piece that can only be used for that one thing when it could be done with a few more 1xX and 2xX's almost lost lego my business. Kids: Just me and my SO. e-mail: kiyose@peak.org kiyose@mcl.ucsb.edu
From: jalling@winboss.dk (jalling@winboss.dk)
Date: 28 Mar 95 00:14:24
Organization: WinBoss: Yet Another Point/2
Name: Niels Jalling
Age: 42
E-Mail Address: jalling@winboss.dk ( jalling@ibm.net)
Marial Status. Married for 16 years
Kids: 4 ( 3y,boy; 6y,girl; 9y,girl; 12y,boy )
Employment: Systems programmer
Location: Frederiksberg (part of Copenhagen), Denmark (Home of LEGO)
Number of sets: 0, But my kids have more than 100 ranging from basic DUPLO
to the latest Technic sets.
Oldest set: Cant say. I have played vith LEGO as long as i can remember. My
grandmother (and later my mothers sister) had a toys shop in a small town,
Hobro. My aunt was the one of the best shops to visit when looking for the
newest, and largest LEGOsets, the LEGO rep says. Unfortunately she had to close
the shop before Christmas last year (she is 78 years old).
When I was a kid, the number of different LEGO bricks was very limited. We only
had the standard bricks, later the flat bricks came. Doors and windows vere
placed in an recess in the brick, doors was 2 dots wide and 3 blocks high,
windows 2 or 4 dots wide and 2 blocks high. There vere no tubes in the bricks
to keep them together. We could go to the toys shop and buy 1 single brick !!
Lego only produced a small number of gift sets. A garage, a gas service
station, a church, a villa as far as I remember.
At the same time as introduction of the tubes in the bricks, a new style of
doors and windows with frames vas introduced. The windows came in sizes from
1*1 to large shop windows. (I have a dealers box only missing a few doors and
windows)
LEGOLAND in Billund, I have been there twice. Its nice looking place but there
are too many people visiting the relative small area. Too much time is used for
waiting.
Well this must be enough for now. I'll return with more LEGO history another
time :-)
Bye, Niels Jalling
PS: besides playing LEGO with my kids I collect and play with Meccano/Erector.
Its much easier to build a clock with :-)
From: davidric@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Ricardo David ) Date: 28 Mar 1995 03:53:05 GMT Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Name: Ricardo(Rick) David Age: 24 Marital Status: Single Occupation: Finishing Master's in Mech. Engr. about to go engineer cars for the Ford Motor Company. Oldest Set: Just took a peek at my old lego collection at home and don't know what my oldest set is but probably a vintage '72-74 set. Number of Sets: No idea, just a box of stuff, but I just bought 5 new sets. Number of Pieces: No idea. Favorite Type of Set: Love the current Space Shuttle sets, just bought all of this type except the airplane/shuttle combo. Biggest Pet Peeve: Why are they making pieces that should be 6 stacked pieces as just on piece 6 pieces high. Just stared lurking around this newsgroup about a week ago and have since gone lego mad. Last weekend I went home and collected all of my old lego together. Since I will start working soon I can't wait to spend some of my new money on Lego. I hope to build a complete lego town. As a start I have my own Cape Canaveral(sp?) already with my lego buying spree last week. It feels good to know that since my lego town is just an idea in my head I can use this group as friendly resource to make it the best it can be. So m